topic Re: How do you remove matching terms from searches? in Splunk Search

How do you remove matching terms from searches?

ryan_t_gavin — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:29:02 GMT

In Splunk 7.1.2, when searching, it will suggest terms that have been indexed in the past. I have deleted some data, but the data is still showing in "matching terms" when i start typing in the search bar.

How do I remove it from there as well?

Re: How do you remove matching terms from searches?

Vijeta — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:21:57 GMT

Hi Ryan,

You can go in your Account Settings and under Search select the option as "None"

Re: How do you remove matching terms from searches?

ryan_t_gavin — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:46:40 GMT

Vijeta,

This does solve the problem in short-term. In my case, though, we accidentally ingested passwords in a file. We do not want this visible to anyone regardless of role, so we deleted it (| delete). We like the matching terms normally as it is convenient when searching something like "host=" to have the list of hosts, but right now if we type "password" it will show the deleted data's content. I'd like to type "password" but not show the deleted data's content; only new data.

Thanks!