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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)

Special notes


Keep in mind that, with both the report-driven dashboard panels and the data model/pivot-driven dashboard panels, making them use tokens is possible; however, it takes some massaging of the syntax.

The techniques in this chapter can be applied to any dashboard that is leveraging simplified XML, which most dashboards on Splunkbase use. If you already have an app installed that is experiencing some performance issues, try one of these techniques to see if you can improve the performance for your users.