Where can I learn more about how Splunk indexing works to process unstructured data to make it easily searchable?

[mhuntington]

Hello,

I am new to Splunk. Been reading a few of their papers, but I would like to learn more about how the indexing technology works, particularly how it can process unstructured data into an easily searchable structure.

[sundareshr]

Start here

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Indexer/Howindexingworks