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Published inJan 2013
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VINCENT BUMGARNER
VINCENT BUMGARNER
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VINCENT BUMGARNER

Vincent Bumgarner has been designing software for over 20 years, working with many languages on nearly as many platforms. He started using Splunk in 2007 and has enjoyed watching the product evolve over the years. While working for Splunk, he has helped many companies train dozens of users to drive, extend, and administer this extremely flexible product. At least one person in every company he has worked with has asked for a book, and he hopes that this book will help fill their shelves.
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Boolean and grouping operators


There are a few operators that you can use to refine your searches (note that these operators must be in uppercase to not be considered search terms):

  • AND is implied between terms. error mary is the same as error AND mary.

  • OR allows you to specify multiple values. error OR mary means "find any event that contains either word".

  • NOT applies to the next term or group. error NOT mary would find events that contain error but do not contain mary.

  • "" identifies a phrase. "Out of this world" will find this exact sequence of words. Out of this world would find any event that contains all of these words, but not necessarily in that order.

  • ( ) is used for grouping terms. Parentheses can help avoid confusion in logic. For instance, these two statements are equivalent:

    • bob error OR warn NOT debug

    • (bob AND (error OR warn)) AND NOT debug

  • = is reserved for specifying fields. Searching for an equal sign can be accomplished by wrapping it in quotes.

  • [ ] is used to perform...

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VINCENT BUMGARNER

Vincent Bumgarner has been designing software for over 20 years, working with many languages on nearly as many platforms. He started using Splunk in 2007 and has enjoyed watching the product evolve over the years. While working for Splunk, he has helped many companies train dozens of users to drive, extend, and administer this extremely flexible product. At least one person in every company he has worked with has asked for a book, and he hopes that this book will help fill their shelves.
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