https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148464#M185404 <P>Previously we have encountered issues with using CAPS in index name configuration.</P> <P>What other issues should we be aware of? </P> <P>Are there issues with using special characters like "." or numerals in web2.0:</P> <P>index=web2.0</P> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:32:03 GMT the_wolverine 2014-02-12T21:32:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148464#M185404 <P>Previously we have encountered issues with using CAPS in index name configuration.</P> <P>What other issues should we be aware of? </P> <P>Are there issues with using special characters like "." or numerals in web2.0:</P> <P>index=web2.0</P> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:32:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148464#M185404 the_wolverine 2014-02-12T21:32:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148465#M185405 <P>yes, likely, use "underscore" to check.</P> <P>index=web2_0</P> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:07:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148465#M185405 yannK 2014-02-12T22:07:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148466#M185406 <P>Is this documented anywhere?</P> Mon, 17 Feb 2014 02:23:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148466#M185406 the_wolverine 2014-02-17T02:23:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148467#M185407 <P>Yes...see this link (search for "PER INDEX OPTIONS")<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.1/admin/Indexesconf">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.1/admin/Indexesconf</A></P> Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:12:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148467#M185407 somesoni2 2014-02-17T05:12:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148468#M185408 <P>`******************************************************************************<BR /> PER INDEX OPTIONS<BR /> These options may be set under an [<INDEX>] entry.</INDEX></P> <P>Index names must consist of only numbers, letters, periods, underscores, and hyphens. <BR /> ******************************************************************************`</P> Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:59:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-are-the-issues-with-index-naming/m-p/148468#M185408 yannK 2014-02-17T17:59:32Z