Configure and deploy indexes

implements custom indexes for event storage. The indexes are defined across the apps provided with .

• In a single server deployment, the installation of Enterprise Security creates the indexes in the default path for data storage. For an architectural overview, see Single server deployments in this manual.

• In a Splunk Cloud deployment, customers will work with Splunk Support to setup, manage, and maintain their cloud index parameters. For information on Splunk Cloud index settings, see the Manage indexes topic in the Splunk Cloud Admin Manual.

• In a distributed search deployment, the indexes must be created on all Splunk platform indexers or search peers. For an architectural overview, see Distributed search deployments in this manual.

Index configuration

The indexes defined in do not provide configuration settings to address:

• Multiple storage paths
• Accelerated data models
• Data retention
• Bucket sizing
• Use of volume parameters.

For detailed examples of configuring indexes, see indexes.conf.example in the Splunk Enterprise Admin Manual.

Indexes by app

App context	Indexes	Description
DA-ESS-ThreatIntelligence	ioc	Unused in this release.
	threat_activity	Contains events that result from a threat list match.
SA-AccessProtection	access_summary	Deprecated in this release. See the Authentication data model.
	access_summary2	Deprecated in this release. See the Authentication data model.
SA-AuditAndDataProtection	audit_summary	Audit and data protection summary index.
	audit_summary2	Audit and data protection summary index.
SA-EndpointProtection	endpoint_summary	Endpoint protection summary index.
	endpoint_summary2	Endpoint protection summary index.
SA-IdentityManagement	session_start	Session management summary index.
	session_end	Session management summary index.
SA-ThreatIntelligence	notable	Contains the notable events.
	notable_summary	Contains a stats summary of notable events used on select dashboards.
	risk	Contains the risk modifier events.
SA-NetworkProtection	network_summary network_summary2 network_summary3	Network summary index.
	traffic_center_summary traffic_center_summary2	Traffic Center summary index.
	proxy_center_summary proxy_center_summary2	Proxy Center summary index.
	whois	WHOIS data index.
Splunk_SA_CIM	cim_summary	Unused in this release.
	cim_modactions	Contains the adaptive response action events.
Splunk_SA_ExtremeSearch	xtreme_contexts	Contains the contexts for Extreme search.

In addition, the add-ons might include custom indexes defined in an indexes.conf file.

Index deployment

includes a tool to gather the indexes.conf and index-time props.conf and transforms.conf settings from all enabled apps and add-ons on the search head and assemble them into one add-on. For more details, see Distributed Configuration Management in this manual.