The search query sourcetype=access_combined would return events from the access_combined sourcetype, which is a predefined sourcetype in Splunk that matches the access-common or access-combined Apache logging formats1. The sourcetype field is case-sensitive, so using different capitalization such as Access_Combined or ACCESS_COMBINED would not match the exact sourcetype name2. The sourcetype field is also a default field that is added by the indexer when it indexes the data, so it does not need to be enclosed in quotation marks3.
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List of pretrained source types
Search command syntax details
Basic searches and search results
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