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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

Management and admin


Splunk 6.4 comes with an enhanced distributed management console, which supports new topology views, search head clustering views, index and storage utilization, and performance views. It also has added support to grant restricted access to admins so that they can manage specific parts of Splunk deployments.

The following are some of the new features added in Splunk 6.4 under the distributed management console:

  • The HTTP Event Collector: The management console enlists the entire HTTP Event Collector input classified on the basis of the authorization token. This feature enables the admin to understand and get insight of the data coming in via the HTTP collector input method.

  • Search statistics: The console lists the heaviest/long running searches classified on the basis of users. This feature can be used to find out those searches that are causing overhead on Splunk servers.

  • I/O statistics: The I/O utilization of bandwidth for Splunk instances is shown to take necessary...