crawl

noun

  1. The search command that searches your filesystem for new data sources to add to your index.
  2. The configured search (or crawl) that searches your filesystem for new data sources to add to your index.

verb

crawl, crawl-ing

The act of searching (crawling) your filesystem for new data sources to add to your index.

You can configure a crawler to crawl your filesystem for different types of data sources.

For more information

In the Getting Data In Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time