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Now, let's suppose that you ran some searches in your Splunk instance of deployment. It lasted 10 minutes. You never extended it by sharing it so that it goes to seven days, or after seven days, you never saved as a report. So it's no longer available in Splunk, but you wanted to get access to the query that you use for that search. was a very complex query and you thought it was going to take a long time for you to write it again. You can always go to the search history and view that information. So the search history contains a list of the most recently run ad hoc searches in your Splunk instance or deployment. Now you can actually do some things with the search history. You can use a filter here to find terms in previously run searches. We have been running searches with 0109 and so on. And let's suppose that after that, And there have been multiple days where you're running different searches and so on. And all of a sudden, you wanted that search that you were using for 01 or for…

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