https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Best-practice-when-data-is-imported-wrong/m-p/476731#M81850 <P>What would be the best practice / standard operating procedure when data is imported wrong into Splunk? I imported a webserver server error logs into splunk and did not select the correct date / time.</P> <P>See this thread - <A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/771988/time-column-and-event-date-are-different.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/771988/time-column-and-event-date-are-different.html</A></P> <P>Now that the data has been imported, and I know it is wrong, should the data be removed? I am not even sure how to remove data from splunk?</P> <P>Or, rename the server error log, reupload, and search only the new error log name?</P> <P>This is a windows 10 system using free Splunk.</P> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:25:56 GMT kfelts68 2019-09-13T13:25:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Best-practice-when-data-is-imported-wrong/m-p/476731#M81850 <P>What would be the best practice / standard operating procedure when data is imported wrong into Splunk? I imported a webserver server error logs into splunk and did not select the correct date / time.</P> <P>See this thread - <A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/771988/time-column-and-event-date-are-different.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/771988/time-column-and-event-date-are-different.html</A></P> <P>Now that the data has been imported, and I know it is wrong, should the data be removed? I am not even sure how to remove data from splunk?</P> <P>Or, rename the server error log, reupload, and search only the new error log name?</P> <P>This is a windows 10 system using free Splunk.</P> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:25:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Best-practice-when-data-is-imported-wrong/m-p/476731#M81850 kfelts68 2019-09-13T13:25:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Best-practice-when-data-is-imported-wrong/m-p/476732#M81851 <P>If it is in an index all by itself, just delete the whole index. If not, then use the <CODE>... | delete</CODE> command to hide it from searches (it will still be there because data in a Splunk index is immutable, but it will not show in any search results). The worst thing that you can do is to do nothing: do not leave junk in Splunk.</P> Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:13:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Best-practice-when-data-is-imported-wrong/m-p/476732#M81851 woodcock 2019-09-16T15:13:39Z