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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

Search history


Search history is another useful feature introduced in Splunk 6.3 which can be used to view and interact with history of the search command. This feature can be used to get the complete list of search queries executed on Splunk over time.

The search history feature can be accessed via the Splunk Web console by clicking on "Search & Reporting" App | Search. It takes the user to the search summary dashboard with the option to run search queries.

The following image shows the search summary dashboard from where the search history can be accessed:

The Search History option enables the following information on the screen:

  • The exhaustive list of search queries run on the Splunk instance along with the time of the last run

  • The Action option to directly copy the respective search query in the Search bar so as to run the search query right away

  • The Filter option to choose the list of queries shown on the basis of time defined in the time range picker or some specific word/string which...