▶Book Description
Splunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption on the market. More and more organizations want to adopt Splunk to use their data to make informed decisions.
This book is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You'll start with very basics of Splunk- installing Splunk-and then move on to searching machine data with Splunk. You will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, you will learn to create various reports, XML forms, and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot Model to transform the data models into visualization. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you'll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.
▶What You Will Learn
- Install and configure Splunk
- Gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields
- Be comfortable with the Search Processing Language and get to know the best practices in writing search queries
- Create stunning and powerful dashboards
- Be proactive by implementing alerts and scheduled reports
- Use the Splunk SDK and integrate Splunk data into other applications
- Implement the best practices in using Splunk.
▶Key Features
- Want to get started with Splunk to analyze and visualize machine data? Open this book and step into the world of Splunk.
- Leverage the exceptional analysis and visualization capabilities to make informed decisions for your business
- This easy-to-follow, practical book can be used by anyone, even if you have never managed any data before
▶Who This Book Is For
This book will be perfect for you if you are a Software engineer or developer or System administrators or Business analyst who seek to correlate machine data with business metrics and provide intuitive real-time and statistical visualizations. Some knowledge or experience of previous versions of Splunk will be helpful but not essential.
▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Splunk in Action, introduces you to Splunk Enterprise Software and its powerful capabilities.
- Chapter 2, Bringing in Data, explains indexing and searching in Splunk, and introduces other data concepts that are important to understand.
- Chapter 3, Search Processing Language, develops your skills in using Search Processing Language (SPL).
- Chapter 4, Data Models and Pivot, shows you how to create a data model as well as a pivot table using Splunk.
- Chapter 5, Data Optimization, Reports, Alerts, and Accelerating Searches, explores how to use data optimization and search acceleration with Splunk, and how to create effective reports and alerts.
- Chapter 6, Panes of Glass, takes you step-by-step through the development of dashboard.
- Chapter 7, Splunk SDK for JavaScript and D3.js, instructs you on how to use a Splunk SDK and D3 to create effective and attractive website visualizations.
- Chapter 8, HTTP Event Collector, introduces how to use Splunk to monitor HTTP events.
- Chapter 9, Best Practices and Advanced Queries, overviews various best practices for using Splunk and gives details on advanced queries that can be used to take advantage of Splunk’s many rich capabilities
