This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 2.1 , 2.2 , 2.2.1 , 2.2.3 , 2.2.6
Splunk can automatically create and assign tags to event types as it indexes data. The tags will be based on useful-looking words in events that map strongly to event types.
This example tells Splunk to automatically set tags on any events from sources whose name matches the wildcarded string *!TagMe* .
[source::...TagMe...] AUTO_TAG = 1