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Using ingest actions in Splunk Enterprise

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You are a Splunk user who needs to be able to mask and filter your data easily. Ingest actions allow you to quickly author, preview, and deploy transformation rules at ingest time, through an intuitive user interface. These rulesets allow you to define one or more rules with a few clicks, allowing you to mask, filter, or route data, or drop events you don't need, without having to access the command line or hand write stanzas in configuration files.

How to use Splunk software for this use case 

The video shows you how to use ingest actions to:

  • Author, preview, and deploy transformation rules at ingest time.
  • Route data to a Splunk platform index or AWS S3 destination. For all supported destinations and their requirements, see Use ingest actions to improve the data input process (Cloud/Enterprise).
  • Anonymize account numbers and filter out events for a specific employee or location.
  • Manage, edit, or delete rulesets from the ingest actions menu page.

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