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Implementing Splunk (Update)
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Implementing Splunk (Update)

by VINCENT BUMGARNER, James D. Miller
July 2015
Beginner to intermediate
506 pages
10h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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What does a data model search?

Splunk data models are really a group or set of specific information (referred to as objects) pulled together to create specific Splunk search strings, each used to generate a search that returns a particular dataset. That dataset, returned by the object you select, is governed by particular object constraints and attributes.

Data model objects

As I mentioned, data models are constructed of a series of objects and these objects will be one of four types – Event, Search, Transaction, or Child. They are arranged hierarchically with child objects inheriting from the parent objects that they are associated with.

  • Event objects are the most common data model object, broadly representing a type of event. Event objects are ...
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