Splunk Search

Stop displaying aliased fields

lguinn2
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I have aliased a field (let's call it application_auth_id) to a new name (user). I want my Splunk users to search using user - not the old name, application_auth_id. Unfortunately, application_auth_id shows up near the top of the interesting fields list, and it confuses the users.

How can I remove a field (application_auth_id) from the fields sidebar?

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lguinn2
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As best I can tell, you can customize nothing about the Search app's look and feel in Splunk 6. 😞

In Splunk 5, custom versions of the flashtimeline and dashboard_live were pretty common.

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aelliott
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Is this along the lines of what you are looking for?
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/110886/hide-interesting-fields

lguinn2
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Doesn't work in Splunk 6

probably worked in Splunk 5...

Thanks!

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lguinn2
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Thanks - I had searched for this, but didn't find it! I will try this and see if it works!

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