Book Image

Advanced Splunk

By : Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
Book Image

Advanced Splunk

By: Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Overview of this book

Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization – the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how. Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery. Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Advanced Splunk
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we went through the architectural enhancement done by Splunk in order to speed up data ingestion and indexing to Splunk by utilizing the underutilized resources. We went through index and search parallelization and how it enhances and scales the performance of Splunk. We also went through the details of the data integrity control mechanism and intelligent job scheduling that was introduced in Splunk Enterprise 6.3. Later, we studied how the app key-value store can be used to maintain a state and other information. The last part of this chapter was concentrated on Splunk Enterprise security techniques, implementations, and configuration. We also studied in detail SSO using SAML that was introduced in Splunk 6.3. In the next chapter, we will cover how to create and manage Splunk applications and add-ons.