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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide
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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

by James H. Baxter
November 2018
Beginner
298 pages
7h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time-range selection

The next criterion that you should carefully select is the date-time range for the events you want to retrieve. Obviously, you want a wide enough range to retrieve all the events of interest, but only wide enough—it takes more time and processing resources to retrieve events for longer periods of time. You may want to create a report for the previous hour, 24 hours, or the last 7 days—but searches for 30 days or longer should only be run if you really need the data.

You can select one of the numerous settings from the Time-Range Picker, which has numerous sections:

  • Presets: Pick from a wide range of selections. You should avoid using All time unless you really need to use it.
  • Relative: Specify a relative time in the ...
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ISBN: 9781789531091