US 11,789,901 B2
Source type definition configuration using a graphical user interface
Alexander D. Munk, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jesse Miller, Piedmont, CA (US)
Assigned to Splunk Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Splunk Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/443,436.
Application 17/443,436 is a continuation of application No. 16/013,381, filed on Jun. 20, 2018, granted, now 11,074,216.
Application 16/013,381 is a continuation of application No. 14/611,010, filed on Jan. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,037,331, issued on Jul. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0357362 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 16/13 (2019.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/148 (2019.01); G06F 16/168 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
causing a display to display a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface includes:
an attribute of data of a particular source type, wherein data of the particular source type is generated by one or more computing devices in an information technology environment, and
a user editable field for entering a value associated with the attribute;
receiving, via the graphical user interface, user input corresponding to the value for the attribute;
storing, in a configuration file, the value in association with the attribute as an attribute-value pair of a plurality of attribute-value pairs that correspond to data of the particular source type; and
causing the configuration file to be stored on at least one computing device of a data intake and query system, wherein the at least one computing device uses the attribute-value pair to generate at least one event from data of the particular source type.