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Learning my Companies Splunk Data

MScottFoley
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I am trying to better learn what data is in the indexes at my company.   There is a command that gives you something like a summary of an index (or index and source type), but I forget that it is called.  I do not want to create a summary index, yet that is all I can find when I search.  

The command better shows what appears in the left hand side (Interesting Fields) after a search.   You can filter it and do other things to give a better understanding of the data. 

Thanks, 

P.S.

I would also be interested in any ideas people may have for learning the data at a new company.  I am a power user, not admin.  I found a query to list all indexes and one to list details of all alerts.   Is there a way to search all dashboards or display all searches in them?     

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Perhaps you're thinking of the fieldsummary command (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/SearchReference/Fieldsummary).

You can use REST to search dashboards 

| rest /services/data/ui/views splunk_server=local | table eai:acl.app label title eai:data

I like to make a list of available sourcetypes when I'm learning what data is available.

| metadata type=sourcetypes index=* | table sourcetype
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

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MScottFoley
Path Finder

fieldsummary was what I was looking for.  Also thanks for the other two searches.   

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Perhaps you're thinking of the fieldsummary command (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/SearchReference/Fieldsummary).

You can use REST to search dashboards 

| rest /services/data/ui/views splunk_server=local | table eai:acl.app label title eai:data

I like to make a list of available sourcetypes when I'm learning what data is available.

| metadata type=sourcetypes index=* | table sourcetype
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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