Is it possible to have action.summary_index._name have multiple values?

[haleyykidd]

Is it possible to have action.summary_index._name have multiple values? Ie. can I have a saved search write to more than one summary index?

Ex. action.summary_index._name = my_alerts,general_summary

[yeahnah · Accepted solution]

Hi @haleyykidd 

I'd have to ask why would you want to duplicate data into two indexes?

I doubt this can be done via Splunk configuration, but no harm in trying (if you have not already)...

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Savedsearchesconf

A possible way is to use the collect command in your saved search instead.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Collect?ref=hk

For example...

... your search ...
| collect index=summary1
| collect index=summary2

Hope this helps

[haleyykidd]

Basically, we have two summary indices that we use for two different functions but for which the data the saved search is writing is relevant (to both).

We did try setting two indices as the target, and it was accepted syntactically but in practice did not work - the results ended up writing to neither index. So if anyone is running into this, know that if you set both indices you will effectively get the results written to neither index without any failures being thrown.

We are looking into the collect option now, but as backup would just have two separate saved searches.