how can I remove line breaks and get a horizontal scroll bar instead?
No idea what you’re asking here.
how can I increase the pagination size to something reasonable like 1k or 10k?
What makes you think "1k or 100k" is "reasonable"? Splunk caps the number of displayed results per page at 100. There is no "workaround" beyond downloading the results into a CSV (or similar), and playing with it outside Splunk.
But why would you do that on anything that resembles a routine basis? Splunk is exceptionally powerful and data manipulation and visualization.
how can I disable the alternating row colors?
What row colors? The ones that come up in the search window when you use | table or | stats? You don’t. Not unless you push the query to a Dashboard Panel, and play with the CSS for that dashboard.
is there something like "tail -f"?
The closest option to something like this is a realtime search. However, use real-time searching with extreme caution, as it’s very taxing on the environment
from User warren – Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65112730/configuring-splunk-for-usability/65129325#65129325
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