https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84938#M182085 <P>You can find a workaround here:<BR /><BR /> <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/123629/add-an-alternative-name-as-an-extra-index-identifier">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/123629/add-an-alternative-name-as-an-extra-index-identifier</A></P> Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:22:11 GMT elof 2014-02-19T21:22:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84935#M182082 <P>Is there a way to create an alias to an existing index so we can search by its name and it's alias:</P> <P>eg. <BR /> index=original-name<BR /> or<BR /> index=some-other-name</P> <P>Jonathan</P> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:54:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84935#M182082 mrjlam 2012-03-05T22:54:18Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84936#M182083 <P>No,<BR /><BR /> but I guess that you could create a macro that did something similar. I doubt that the macro would be very useful, though, depending on <EM>why</EM> you want to do this.</P> <P>Are you trying to migrate existing searches, reports, etc. from an old index name to a new one? If so, you could use <STRONG>find</STRONG> + <STRONG>sed</STRONG> on a Linux system to find and replace the old index name in all the saved searches, etc. (Of course, be sure to back up and test before actually doing the replacement!) Ask if you want more details...</P> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:28:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84936#M182083 lguinn2 2012-03-06T20:28:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84937#M182084 <P>I want this too. We have standard naming conventions known and used to query via the search app, or selected programmatically in dashboard code, for summary indexes. I have a case in which two summary indexes contain the same data. Rather than duplicate the data or add additional documentation and additional logic to dashboard index addition, I'd like to be able to reference an index by more than one name.</P> Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:26:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84937#M182084 joebensimo 2013-09-11T21:26:18Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84938#M182085 <P>You can find a workaround here:<BR /><BR /> <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/123629/add-an-alternative-name-as-an-extra-index-identifier">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/123629/add-an-alternative-name-as-an-extra-index-identifier</A></P> Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:22:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84938#M182085 elof 2014-02-19T21:22:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84939#M182086 <P>A couple of other ideas:</P> <P>1 - if you named the indexes something similar, you can use wildcards in the search. For example</P> <PRE><CODE>index=network* </CODE></PRE> <P>or</P> <PRE><CODE>index=*network </CODE></PRE> <P>2 - You could use tags. So if your indexes are named <CODE>indexXYZ</CODE> and <CODE>ABCindex2</CODE>, you could tag each of them. If they both contain syslog data, you could create a tag named <CODE>syslog_index</CODE> and then search</P> <PRE><CODE>tag=syslog_index </CODE></PRE> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 07:21:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/any-way-to-create-an-alternate-name-or-alias-for-an-index/m-p/84939#M182086 lguinn2 2014-03-04T07:21:12Z