Configuring Splunk - Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence - page 325

Summary
This chapter provided an overview of how configurations work and a commentary
on the most common aspects of Splunk configuration. This is by no means a
complete reference for these configurations, which I will leave to the official
documentation. I find the easiest way to get to the official documentation for a
particular file is to query your favorite search engine for splunk configname.conf .
In Chapter 11 , Advanced Deployments , we will dig into distributed deployments, and
look at how they are efficiently configured. What you have learned in this chapter
will be vital to understanding what is considered best practice.