Configure general settings for Splunk Enterprise Security

As a Splunk Enterprise administrator, you can make configuration changes to your Splunk Enterprise Security installation. Change threshold values, macro definitions, search filters, and other commonly changed values on the General Settings page.

On the Enterprise Security menu bar, select Configure > General > General Settings.

Setting	Description
Asset Sources	A search macro that enumerates the lookup tables that contain asset information used for asset correlation.
Auto Pause	Type the time in seconds before a drilldown search will pause.
Default Watchlist Search	Define the watchlisted events for the 'Watchlisted Events' correlation search
Domain Analysis	Enable or disable WHOIS tracking for Web domains.
Domain From URL Extraction Regex	A regular expression used to extract domain (url_domain) from a URL.
Enable Identity Generation Autoupdate	If true, permit the Identity Manager to auto-update asset_sources, identity_sources, and generate_identities macros. True by default.
Generic Error Search	A search filter for defining events that indicate an error has occurred.
HTTP Category Analysis Sparkline Earliest	Set the start time for sparklines displayed on the HTTP User Category Analysis dashboard.
HTTP Category Analysis Sparkline Span	Set the time span for sparklines displayed on the HTTP User Category Analysis dashboard.
HTTP User Agent Analysis Sparkline Earliest	Set the start time for sparklines displayed on the HTTP User Agent Analysis dashboard.
HTTP User Agent Analysis Sparkline Span	Set the time span for sparklines displayed on the HTTP User Agent Analysis dashboard.
IRT Disk Sync Delay	Set the number of seconds for Enterprise Security to wait for a disk flush to finish. Relevant to indexed real time searches.
Identity Generation	Defines the transformations used to normalize identity information. See Rank the order for merging identities.
Identity Generation Timeout	Number of seconds the Identity Manager waits before warning of slow search completion in identity_manager.log.
Identity Sources	Enumerates the source lookup tables that contain identity information.
Incident Review Analyst Capacity	Estimated maximum capacity of notable events assigned to an analyst. Relative measure of analyst workload.
Indexed Realtime	Enable or disable indexed real-time mode for searches.
Large Email Threshold	An email that exceeds this size in bytes is considered large.
Licensing Event Count Filter	Define the list of indexes to exclude from the "Events Per Day" summarization.
Maximum Documents Per Batch Save (kvstore)	The maximum number of documents that can be saved in a single batch to a KV Store collection.
New Domain Analysis Sparkline Span	Set the time span for sparklines displayed in the New Domain Analysis dashboard.
Notable Modalert Pipeline	SPL for the notable event adaptive response action.
Override Email Alert Action	Override the email alert action settings to allow users to send notable events via email through adaptive response actions on the Incident Review dashboard.
Risk Modalert Pipeline	SPL for the risk modifier adaptive response action.
Search Disk Quota (admin)	Set the maximum amount of disk space in MB that an admin user can use to store search job results.
Search Jobs Quota (admin)	Set the maximum number of concurrent searches allowed for admin users.
Search Jobs Quota (power)	Set the maximum number of concurrent searches for power users.
Short Lived Account Length	An account creation and deletion record that exceeds this threshold is anomalous.
TSTATS Allow Old Summaries	Enable or disable searching of data model accelerations containing fields that do not match the current data model configuration.
TSTATS Local	Determine whether or not the TSTATS macro will be distributed.
TSTATS Summaries Only	Determine whether or not the TSTATS or summariesonly macro will only search accelerated events.
Threat Artifacts Max	The maximum number of threat artifacts to return for unfiltered queries on the Threat Artifacts dashboard. The default is 10000, and is managed in the `threat_artifacts_max` macro editor.
Threat Intelligence Wildcard Minimum Length	Filter out wildcard intelligence that doesn't meet the minimum requirement.
Use Other	Enable or disable the term OTHER on charts that exceed default series limits.
Website Watchlist Search	A list of watchlisted websites used by the "Watchlisted Events" correlation search.

See also

Manage input credentials in Splunk Enterprise Security

Manage permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security

Customize the menu bar in Splunk Enterprise Security

Configure per-panel filtering in Splunk Enterprise Security