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How to re-index without clearing event data

travistrp
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What is the easiest way to make changes for data parsing and then re-load all of the data that has already been indexed. We do not want to clear / delete any of the events that have already been captured but we would just like to re-index all of the data that has already ran through the indexing process.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
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You can either use the splunk add oneshot command, or if you are using the Splunk file monitor, you can perform a clean of the fishbucket index on the input instance.

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