Multivalue Fields
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Instructor-led online training
Location | Jul 2022 | Aug 2022 | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 | Nov 2022 | Dec 2022 | Jan 2023 |
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AMER Eastern Time - Virtual |
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APAC Sydney - Virtual |
Jul 29 |
Aug 26 |

Summary
This three-hour course is for power users who want to become experts on searching and manipulating multivalue data. Topics will focus on using multivalue eval functions and multivalue commands to create, evaluate, and analyze multivalue data.
Description
- What are Multivalue Fields
- Creating Multivalue Fields
- Evaluating Multivalue Fields
- Analyzing Multivalue Fields
Objectives
Topic 1 – What are Multivalue Fields?
- Understand multivalue fields
- Define self-describing data
- Understand how JSON data is handled in Splunk
- Use the spath command to interpret self-describing data
- Use mvzip and mvexpand commands to manipulate multivalue fields
- Convert single-value fields to multivalue fields with specific commands and functions
Topic 2 – Creating Multivalue Fields
- Creating multivalue fields with the makemv command and the split function of the eval command
Topic 3 – Evaluating Multivalue Fields
- Use the mvcount, mvindex, and mvfilter eval functions to evaluate multivalue fields
Topic 4 – Manipulating Multivalue Data
- Use the mvsotr, mvzip, mvjoin, mvmap, and mvappend eval functions and the mvexpand command to analyze multivalue data