Documentation
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Welcome to Splunk's official product documentation!
Here you'll find information for Splunk users, administrators, and developers, as well as Release Notes for the current and earlier versions of Splunk.
Choose your version
Select the version of Splunk that you're running from the drop-down list at the top left of this page. Then choose a manual from the next drop-down list, and go from there.
Choose your manual
Choose the manual you'd like to read from the menu above or by clicking on a link below:
| Installation Manual | Find system requirements and planning, installation, and migration information |
| User Manual | Learn all about searching, monitoring, alerting, and reporting |
| Knowledge Manager Manual | (available for versions 4.0 and later): Explains why working with Splunk knowledge objects such as source and event types, saved searches, transactions, and more can make your Splunk deployment even more effective and efficient |
| Admin Manual | Find out how to add data sources to Splunk, create user accounts, define data retention and backup policies, secure your Splunk instance, manage the resources your users use, and perform other system administration tasks |
| Developer Manual | Get instructions for and examples of building dashboards, creating custom views and Apps, extend Splunk using our REST API, and more |
| Search Reference Manual | (available for versions 4.0 and later): Look up details about every Splunk search language command and find the Search language cheat sheet |
| Application Management Manual | (available for versions 4.1 and later): Learn how to use Splunk to manage distributed applications, measure performance, and identify and resolve problems |
| Release Notes | Find out what's new in this release of Splunk, what issues we've found, and the changelog (what's been fixed) for each release |
Make a PDF
If you'd like a PDF of any version of any manual, navigate to that manual and click the pdf version link above the left hand table of contents bar. A PDF version of that manual is generated on the fly for you, and you can save it or print it out to read later.
Look something up in the Splexicon
A lot of the terms we use here in the Splunk world are defined in the Splexicon, come and take a look!
Find what you need
Get answers to your specific implementation and deployment questions on Splunk Answers.
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Join the Splunk community!
We want to hear from you! You can contribute:
- Discuss the content of the documentation and suggest improvements using the Discussion tabs on every documentation topic page.
- Create your own topics and talk about what you've done with your Splunk! Check out the Splunk Community Wiki.
- Join other Splunk users in our #splunk IRC channel on EFNET.