From the course: Practical Splunk: Build Data Intelligence through SPL, Reports, and Dashboards

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Learning objectives

Learning objectives

- Fields enable you to tailor your searches. Fields are searchable key-value pairs in your data. First, we learn about fields in general on how they're used in Splunk. Next, we explore how to use the Field Extraction Wizard, which is a menu-driven GUI that you can use to create fields without having to type regular expressions. Finally, we cover the Rex Command with plenty of examples for extracting fields using this SPL command. Learning to use the Rex Command will come in very handy when you have to manually extract fields from your data. By the end of this lesson, you will have learned how to extract and use fields in your data. Let's do it.

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