Admin Manual

Manuals for the Splunk administrator

This Admin manual is one of several books with important information and procedures for the Splunk administrator.

If you're responsible for configuring, running, and maintaining Splunk as a service for yourself or other users, start with this book. Then go to these other manuals for details on specific areas of Splunk administration:

• Getting Data In
• Managing Indexers and Clusters
• Distributed Deployment
• Security
• Troubleshooting
• Installation

Here's a breakdown of the information you can find in this important set of books:

Manual	What it covers	Key topic areas
Getting Data In	Specifying data inputs and improving how Splunk handles data	How to get data into Splunk Configure event processing Preview your data
Managing Indexers and Clusters	Managing Splunk indexers and clusters of indexers	About indexing and indexers Manage indexes Back up and archive your indexes About clusters and index replication Deploy clusters
Distributed Deployment	Scaling your deployment to fit the needs of your enterprise, with details on Splunk distributed components such as forwarders, search heads, and deployment servers	Distributed Splunk overview Forward data Search across multiple indexers Deploy updates across your environment
Securing Splunk	Data security and user authentication	User authentication and roles About securing Splunk with SSL Auditing
Troubleshooting	Solving problems	First steps Splunk log files Some common scenarios
Installation	Installing and upgrading Splunk	System requirements Step by step installation procedures How to upgrade Splunk

The topic "Learn to administer Splunk" provides more detailed guidance on where to go to read about specific admin tasks.

Other books of interest to the Splunk administrator

In addition to the manuals that describe the primary administration tasks, you might want to visit other manuals from time to time, depending on the size of your Splunk installation and the scope of your responsibilities. These are other manuals in the Splunk core documentation set:

• Splunk Tutorial! This manual provides an introduction to using Splunk.
• Knowledge Manager. This manual describes how to manage Splunk knowledge objects, such as event types, tags, lookups, field extractions, workflow actions, saved searches, and views.
• Alerting. This manual describes Splunk's alerting and monitoring functionality.
• Data Visualizations. This manual describes the range of visualizations that Splunk provides.
• Search. This manual tells you how to search and how to use the Splunk search language.
• Search Reference. This reference contains a detailed catalog of the Splunk search commands.
• Developing Views and Apps for Splunk Web. This manual explains how to develop views and apps using advanced XML. It also contains other developer topics, such as custom scripts and extending Splunk.
• REST API Reference. This manual provides information on all publicly accessible REST API endpoints.
• Release Notes. Look here for information about new features, known issues, and fixed problems.

The larger world of Splunk documentation

For links to the full set of Splunk core documentation, including the manuals listed above, visit: Splunk core documentation.

To access all the Splunk documentation, including manuals for apps, go to this page: Welcome to Splunk documentation.