Make tags public

[kmcconnell]

I could see where this question was asked a couple of times in 2011, but I'm wondering if anything has changed since then to make this easier. I'd like to be able to create a tags.conf file in my app, but make these tags available to everyone. Seems like Splunk could just set a boolean value to mark it global.

[sourcetype=xxxx]
global = 1
needed_tag = enabled

[Ayn · Accepted solution]

Oh but you can! It's defined in the default.meta file in an app's metadata directory. See more information here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/AdvancedDev/SetPermissions

And here for the spec: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Defaultmetaconf