replace string in log

[sarit_s]

Hello

I have logs that contains some string that i want to replace with *** 

i want to to be permanent and not only in search time.

is it possible ?

p.s - i don't have the log files anymore so i cannot delete and index again

thanks

[PickleRick]

If it's a very sensitive issue, you might try to export the events from the whole index (or probably you could try exporting raw data from a single bucket with help from Splunk Professional Services), delete index files from server's disk, modify the exported events "offline" and ingest them again. But it's a very cumbersome process.

In general, once the data is indexed, it's immutable and stays in the index until it expires or is being pushed out because of index size limit. Even the delete operation does not really delete data from index files, it just marks the events as unsearchable.

[richgalloway]

Once data is indexed it cannot be edited, modified, changed, replaced, or altered in any way.  Any replacements will have to be at search time.