What's in this guide?

This manual teaches end users about Splunk and how to use Splunk. To help you start using Splunk, run through the Tutorial.

Inside you can find helpful tutorials, instruction on how to use features, and helpful reference pages explaining the search language.

You can also find a helpful search cheatsheet to help you construct useful searches right away.

Take note:

Before using Splunk, review the Installation manual for system requirements and step-by-step installation guides.
System administrators should refer to the Administration and Deployment manuals for advanced configuration and data management topics.
Those interested in customizing Splunk and creating applications for Splunk should refer to the Developer manual.
You can also share custom Splunk applications with other members of the Splunk community via SplunkBase.

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or if you're looking to index data from mysql, you should see the page on scripted inputs:

http://www.splunk.com/doc/3.3/admin/Scripted%20Inputs
Posted by emma on Jul 23 2008, 2:59pm
Hi elombera. You're going to want to check out this page in the Admin Manual:

http://www.splunk.com/doc/latest/admin/RouteDataToNonSplunkSystems
Posted by emma on Jul 23 2008, 2:40pm
Which manual is gonna help me point splunk at a MySQL DB?
Posted by elombera on Jul 23 2008, 2:06pm
I've been searching for a PDF manual that I can download and print. Is there one?
Posted by adamhmitchell on Jul 16 2008, 1:00pm
no comments yet.
Posted by jar2711 on Jun 24 2008, 8:55am