Comma

Although there are many rules for when to use a comma, the following table shows the most common uses in Splunk documentation. For commas in numbers, see Commas and decimals.

Scenario	Example
To separate a list of 3 or more words or word groups. This type of comma is known as the serial, or Oxford, comma.	Generate reports, views, and dashboards.
To separate adjectives when they each modify the noun independently.	The feature groups the extracted fields into a single, ordered sequence.
To offset appositives from the rest of the sentence.	Use wiki markup when you don't have any elements, such as code or a table, following a step.
After a prepositional phrase.	After reviewing the document, I had a chance to compile a list of reading material.

Don't use commas to separate 2 verb phrases that modify the same subject. See the following example:

Do this	Don't do this
I collected the various pieces of documentation and forwarded them to the appropriate parties.	I collected the various pieces of documentation, and forwarded them to the appropriate parties.