In this chapter, we introduced indexes in general, talked about the objectives behind Splunk indexing, identified the existing indexes within your Splunk environments, defined indexes and indexers, and went through the basic operations of managing your indexes, such as setting attributes (index by index) and even moving or removing an index.

In the next chapter, we will go over the forward-thinking topics for Splunk applications and add-ons, such as navigation, searching, and sharing.