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Use search assistant

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So the search assistant is a tool that helps you to write searches in Splunk. So it helps to provide selections that you can use to complete search strings. So maybe you might need some kind of help, you know, locating terms that you've used in your search before, or maybe looking for, you know, queries that you ran in Splunk before that you wanted to reuse them, or maybe information about different commands that you can use. For commands, for example, you might want to go to the search manual online and start looking. But then the search assistant gives you that option where you can actually just have information about commands and then read at this port, which can help you to enhance your search. Now, let's look at some of the ways in which the search assistant helps you in order to write searches in Splunk. The first one here is that it can provide matching terms in index data. So we just saw how we can search with quoted phrases and keywords. If I start typing a keyword like use…

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