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Splunk Best Practices

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Splunk Best Practices

Overview of this book

This book will give you an edge over others through insights that will help you in day-to-day instances. When you're working with data from various sources in Splunk and performing analysis on this data, it can be a bit tricky. With this book, you will learn the best practices of working with Splunk. You'll learn about tools and techniques that will ease your life with Splunk, and will ultimately save you time. In some cases, it will adjust your thinking of what Splunk is, and what it can and cannot do. To start with, you'll get to know the best practices to get data into Splunk, analyze data, and package apps for distribution. Next, you'll discover the best practices in logging, operations, knowledge management, searching, and reporting. To finish off, we will teach you how to troubleshoot Splunk searches, as well as deployment, testing, and development with Splunk.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 2. Data Inputs

In Splunk there are many ways to get data into the indexers, which make for the ability to be very creative in doing so. Between the apps that are provided on Splunk base and the other methods that can be developed by an individual, it paves the way to be very dynamic in getting data in to get value out of your data.

In this chapter I'm going to assume that you have your Forwarders installed.

Let's start with most of the agents and applications to get data into Splunk.