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Configuration files (nf): You can create event types by directly editing nf configuration file in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/localīy now, you would have understood how event types are created and displayed. Refer to the below screenshot to get a better understanding:Ĥ. Let me take the same employee example to make it easy. Using Splunk Web: This is the easiest way to create an event type. Once you click on ‘Build Event Type’ displayed in the above screenshot, it will return the selected set of events based on a particular search.ģ.

Step2: Find the down arrow next to the event timestamp You can find this utility in your search results.

This utility also enables you to assign specific colors to event types. Using Build Event Type Utility: The Build Event Type utility enables you to dynamically create event types based on Splunk events returned by searches. You can refer to the below screenshot to get a better understanding:Ģ. Go through the below steps to create one: Using Search: We can create an event type by writing a simple search query. Let us go into more detail to understand it properly:ġ. There are multiple ways to create an event type: Now, let us learn how these Splunk event types are created. But, you can associate one or more tags with an event type. You can also create alerts based on the search results.ĭo note that you cannot use a pipe character or a sub search while defining an event type.

It is a user-defined field which scans through huge amount of data and returns the search results in the form of dashboards.

Splunk event type refers to a collection of data which helps in categorizing events based on common characteristics.

They group these two separate Splunk events and you can save this string as a single event type (Employee_Detail). Now, let us learn how Splunk Event types help you to group similar events.Īssume you have a string containing the employee name and employee ID a nd you want to search the string using a single search query rather than searching them individually. You can rename or slice it for a period of time in order to change its presentation.įor example: 3/4/16 7:53:51 represents the timestamp of a particular event. It is barcoded with every event and cannot be changed.

Time: It is a field which displays the time at which the event was generated.

If you don’t specify anything, it goes into a default index.

Index: It is the name of the index where the raw data is indexed.

It contains the data structure of the event.

Sourcetype: Sourcetype identifies the format of the data, whether it is a log file, XML, CSV or a thread field.

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It is the full pathname or a file or directory within a machine.

Source: Source is where the host data comes from.

In the above screenshot, My-Machine is the host.

Host: Host is a machine or an appliance IP address name from where the data comes.

Let me show you how events look in Splunk:Īs you can see in the above screenshot, there are default fields (Host, Source, Sourcetype and Time) which gets added after indexing. This data can be in any format, for example: a string, a number or a JSON object. The custom data that has been forwarded to Splunk Server are called Splunk Events. Splunk EventsĪn event refers to any individual piece of data. So, let’s get started with Splunk Events.

Learn all about Splunk with the Splunk Certification. These knowledge objects help to enrich your data in order to make them easier to search and report on. In this blog, I am going to explain Splunk Events, Event types, and Splunk Tags.

In my previous blog, I spoke about 3 Knowledge objects: Splunk Timechart, Data model and Alert that were related to reporting and visualizing data.