Manager

noun

A special section of Splunk Web where you can create new configurations and knowledge objects, or edit existing ones. Most of the settings in Splunk's configuration files are also available in Manager.

You can use Splunk Manager to monitor license usage, configure inputs, set up forwarding and receiving, create and administrate users and roles, set up permissions enabling those users and roles to view and interact with knowledge objects and much more.

Related terms

For more information

In the User manual:

In the Knowledge Management manual:

In the Admin 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