Less-Common Yet Impactful SPL Commands
Karun Subramanian · Apress eBooks · 2020
There are more than 140 commands in SPL to help you with numerous use cases pertaining to your machine data. We’ve seen many of these commands already. Yet, we haven’t covered the entire SPL repertoire. You do not need to master all the commands to get the best out of Splunk. In fact, the commands we’ve learned so far will be more than enough for solving most problems. There are a few commands in SPL that you may not use on your day-to-day activities. While these are generally less common, that is not to say that they are not useful. In fact, some of these commands can be just what you need for your specific use case. In this chapter, I’ll introduce somewhat-less-common yet impactful SPL commands. For each command, I’ll explain its functionality and proceed to explain with an example or two.