术语:
Event :Events are records of activity in log files, stored in Splunk indexes. 简单说,处理的日志或话单中中一行记录就是一个Event;
Source type: 来源类型,identifies the format of the data,简单说,一种特定格式的日志,可以定义为一种source type;Splunk默认提供有500多种确定格式数据的type,包括apache log、常见OS的日志、Cisco等网络设备的日志等;
Index: The index is the repository for Splunk Enterprise data. Splunk transforms incoming data into events, which it stores in indexes. 有两层含义:一是数据物理存储上的表达,也是一个数据处理的动作表达:Splunk indexes your data,这个过程会产生两类数据:
The raw data in compressed form (rawdata)
Indexes that point to the r