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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

Chapter 12. What Next? Splunk 6.4

We already covered various aspects of Splunk 6.3 in the previous chapters in detail. We saw the implementation of various analytics and visualization along with the features of Splunk 6.3. Splunk recently launched an updated version: Splunk 6.4. In this chapter, we will glimpse at all the new features that have been added in Splunk 6.4 to enable better analytics and visualization. Along with the features, we will also see what all changes have been made in Splunk to make it more scalable, functional, and useful to the users. Splunk 6.4, the latest version of Splunk Enterprise comes packed with new features and customizations. The following are the key features that have been added/improved in Splunk 6.4:

  • Storage optimization

  • Machine learning

  • Management and admin

  • Indexer and search head enhancement

  • Visualizations

  • Multi-search management

  • Enhanced alert actions