Discovering data for your investigations using the Catalog

Use the Catalog in Splunk Cloud Platform to discover available datasets and find the data you need to power your investigations before writing SPL or SPL2 searches.

The Catalog is a centralized data discovery interface that consolidates information about the datasets and Machine Data Lake (MDL) promotion jobs that are available to you. Boost your investigations by using the Catalog to identify relevant datasets, learn about them, and promote important data to be optimized for analysis and searches before even writing your first SPL or SPL2 search.

Note: The Catalog is being gradually rolled out, and is fully functional in Splunk Cloud Platform version 10.5.2605.5 and higher including features pertaining to Machine Data Lake.

To navigate to the Catalog, do either of the following from the global navigation bar in Splunk Cloud Platform:

  • Select the Catalog (Image of the "Catalog" icon) icon.

  • Select the Settings (Image of the "Settings" icon) icon. Then, in the Knowledge section, select Catalog.

To learn more about the Catalog, see the following pages:

See also

For information about background search operations that are used to support the Catalog, see Configure background search operations for the Catalog in the Splunk Cloud Platform Admin Manual.

For information about landing, promoting, and working with data in Machine Data Lake, see the Machine Data Lake manual.