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Improving Your Splunk Skills
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Improving Your Splunk Skills

by James D. Miller, Paul R. Johnson, Josh Diakun, Derek Mock
August 2019
Beginner to intermediate
680 pages
17h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a summary index

To create an index, navigate to Settings | Indexes | New Index:

Note: The New Index page has changed a bit in version 7.0 but for now, let's simply give our new index a name and accept the default values.

We will discuss these settings under the indexes.conf section in Chapter 10, Configuring Splunk. I like to put the word summary at the beginning of any summary index, but the name does not matter. I would suggest you follow some naming convention that makes sense to you.

Now that we have an index to store events in, let's do something with it.

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ISBN: 9781838981747