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Ingestion Method as Field?

morethanyell
Builder

Hi. I've noticed there are some hidden fields in every event ingested into Splunk, like _indextime. Is there some sort of hidden field where it tells the method of ingestion, such as _indexingmethod = TCP | FileMonitor | HEC | etc

Thanks in advance.

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jawaharas
Motivator

I don't think there are any. The list of default fields can be referred here-

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Data/Aboutdefaultfields

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jawaharas
Motivator

I don't think there are any. The list of default fields can be referred here-

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Data/Aboutdefaultfields

morethanyell
Builder

I hope they include it in future version.

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