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Indexing in splunk

ChhayaV
Communicator

hi,
How indexing is done in splunk ? does it indexes all the raw data? if i extract some field after uploading data into splunk will those fields will be indexed?

Thanks and regards

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linu1988
Champion

After the data is indexed, it will not be indexed anymore even if there are any manipulation on the data.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It indexes all the raw data, your field extractions are applied at search-time. It doesn't matter when the extraction was defined in relation to the indexing.

sowings
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Furthermore, different apps and different users can have their own individual ways of extracting fields from the same indexed data!

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