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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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An overview of Splunk .conf files

If you have spent any length of time in the filesystem investigating Splunk, you must have seen many different files ending in .conf. In this section, we will give you a quick overview of the most common .conf files. The official documentation is the best place to look for a complete reference to files and attributes.

The quickest way to find the official documentation is with your favorite search engine by searching for splunk filename.conf. For example, a search for splunk props.conf pulled up (and will pull up) the Splunk documentation for props.conf first in every search engine I tested.

props.conf

The stanzas in props.conf define which events to match based on host, source, and sourcetype. These stanzas are ...

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