Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered

Making raw event data readable

When a basic search is executed in Splunk from the search bar, the search results are displayed in a raw event format by default. To many users, this raw event information is not particularly readable, and valuable information is often clouded by other less valuable data within the event. Additionally, if the events span several lines, only a few events can be seen on the screen at any one time.

In this recipe, we will write a Splunk search to demonstrate how we can leverage Splunk commands to make raw event data readable, tabulating events and displaying only the fields we are interested in.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from ...