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block queries without sourcetype

bmcaetano
Engager

Is there any efficient way to block queries without the sourcetype? Educating users is not working and we wanted to block it so that there is no degradation of the environment

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

probably you could try Splunk Workload management for it. At least it works if users try to run queries without index=xyz. See more https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Workloads/WorkloadRules

r. Ismo

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