crawl

crawl

The crawl command was deprecated in Splunk Enterprise 6.0 and removed from the product in Splunk Enterprise 7.0.

noun

• The search command that examines your file system for new data sources to add to your index.
• The configured search that performs the identical function.

verb

crawl, crawling

• The act of searching (crawling) your file system for new data sources to add to your index.

You can configure a crawler to crawl your file system for different types of data sources.

For more information

In Getting Data In:

• Find more data sources to monitor with crawl