https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-i-delete-host/m-p/82078#M16952 <P>How do i delete host, sourcetype and source from splunk..<BR /> have tried following option,i am able to remove index but i want to delete host, sourcetype and source from the home page(dashboard)</P> <P>*<STRONG><EM>host="Vaibhav-PC" | delete<BR /> sourcetype="IIS" | delete<BR /> source="C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\W3SVC2.zip:.\u_ex120227.log" | delete</EM></STRONG>*</P> <P>after removing have restarted splunk,but no sucess </P> <P>Thanks,</P> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:26:13 GMT vaibhavbeohar 2012-03-01T07:26:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-i-delete-host/m-p/82078#M16952 <P>How do i delete host, sourcetype and source from splunk..<BR /> have tried following option,i am able to remove index but i want to delete host, sourcetype and source from the home page(dashboard)</P> <P>*<STRONG><EM>host="Vaibhav-PC" | delete<BR /> sourcetype="IIS" | delete<BR /> source="C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\W3SVC2.zip:.\u_ex120227.log" | delete</EM></STRONG>*</P> <P>after removing have restarted splunk,but no sucess </P> <P>Thanks,</P> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:26:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-i-delete-host/m-p/82078#M16952 vaibhavbeohar 2012-03-01T07:26:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-i-delete-host/m-p/82079#M16953 <P>Hi vaibhavbeohar</P> <PRE><CODE>| delete </CODE></PRE> <P>does not delete data, it marks it as unsearchable so it will not appear again in any search. If you want to delete indexed data you can read the <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/Admin/RemovedatafromSplunk">docs</A> and proceed like described.</P> <P>cheers</P> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:25:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-i-delete-host/m-p/82079#M16953 MuS 2012-03-01T12:25:17Z