https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10838#M596 <P>See the splunk_server field, it tells you which indexer the event came from.</P> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:09:43 GMT oreoshake 2010-04-02T07:09:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10837#M595 <P>Splunk does such an awesome job with distributed search. It seems like all my data is on one server (my search head) when, in reality, Splunk is running searches against multiple indexing servers that I have configured as peers. </P> <P>Is there some way for me to restrict my search to a particular peer?</P> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:44:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10837#M595 the_wolverine 2010-04-02T05:44:16Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10838#M596 <P>See the splunk_server field, it tells you which indexer the event came from.</P> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:09:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10838#M596 oreoshake 2010-04-02T07:09:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10839#M597 <P>The splunk_server field specifies the peer:</P> <PRE><CODE>splunk_server=&lt;peer_name&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>You can use the value "local" to refer to the Splunk instance that you are searching from; in other words, the search head itself:</P> <PRE><CODE>splunk_server=local </CODE></PRE> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:19:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/In-a-Distributed-Search-environment-how-do-I-restrict-my-search/m-p/10839#M597 the_wolverine 2010-04-07T11:19:57Z