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Can I alert when the value of a field changes? I've got an application that logs status events. The values in these events generally will not change. Is there a s... by matt Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-27-2010 1 1	1	1
Error on using eval in a subsearch What is wrong with the way I'm using eval here? source="/some.audit.log" "End" "/foo/baz" \| rex field=_raw "(?P<ReqI... by dinh Path Finder in Splunk Search 01-27-2010 0 5	0	5
How can summary indexing help improve the performance of my dashboards and reports I have a report on my dashboard that takes a very long time to build, how can I use summary indexing to improve the p... by benstraw Splunk Employee in Dashboards & Visualizations 01-25-2010 0 3	0	3
How do I search for a single specific event? Sometimes I come across an event in my index that I'd like to refer to later, either as part of an investigation or t... by Johnvey Contributor in Splunk Search 01-25-2010 1 3	1	3
I know the data is in the index, why didn't my scheduled search find all of the events? I have a saved seach setup to check every minute for file changes. I have the start time set for [-1m] to search bac... by Mick Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-22-2010 2 1	2	1
suppressing adjacent events with duplicate field values I have a log which often has redundant events, where "redundant" is defined as 2+ events, on subsequent lines, where ... by Justin_Grant Contributor in Splunk Search 01-22-2010 0 2	0	2
Will having lots of extracted fields increase my index size? I need to understand how adding fields to raw data will increase our index size growth. We are in the process of addi... by Mick Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-21-2010 2 1	2	1
How do I share all of the field extractions defined in a given app with all other apps? I need to share all of the field extractions in my app with all of the other apps on the system. What is the most ef... by matt Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-21-2010 2 5	2	5
What is the format of the Sources.data file? $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb/db/Sources.data On a fresh install I see this file has something like this: ... by matt Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-21-2010 1 2	1	2
RSS feed links to a file not found page I set up an alert action to create an rss feed and there is an rss link in the table view of all of my saved searches... by benstraw Splunk Employee in Reporting 01-20-2010 2 1	2	1
Feature Request: troubleshooting/debugging for field extraction config files [UPDATE: from the answer below, it sounds like what I'm looking for is not supported in the product today. I'm tackin... by Justin_Grant Contributor in Splunk Search 01-20-2010 18 2	18	2
Finalize action for searchscript? I wrote a search operator that takes actions external to splunk. It has to take an action to 'complete' its operatio... by jrodman Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-15-2010 2 2	2	2
Why do my email alerts have garbled headers? I am using Splunk 4 and the email alerts that are sent to me have a bunch on junk in the 'To' and 'From' lines, like:... by Johnvey Contributor in Alerting 01-14-2010 2 1	2	1
how to tell if I have multiline events? Because wc -l of the input doesn't match my event count, and I'm trying to troubleshoot. by V_at_Splunk Splunk Employee in Splunk Search 01-14-2010 1 2	1	2
How do I use the SingleValue module to color code search results? In discussions, Johnvey has suggested to use the SingleValue module to display the output of the results. In fact, wi... by tpaulsen Contributor in Dashboards & Visualizations 11-04-2009 4 2	4	2