In this chapter, we will look at some of the features that Splunk provides beyond its already powerful search language. We will cover the following with the help of examples:
- Tags and event types that help you categorize events, for both search and reporting
- Lookups that allow you to add external fields to events as though they were part of the original data
- Macros that let you reuse snippets of search in powerful ways
- Workflow actions that let you build searches and links based on the field values in an event
- External commands that allow you to use Python code to work with search results
In this chapter, we will investigate a few of the many commands included in Splunk. We will write our own commands in Chapter 13, Extending Splunk.