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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

Indexer and search head enhancement


Splunk when deployed in a clustered and distributed environment is now introduced with various enhancements in Splunk 6.4 for higher efficiency and fault tolerance.

The following are the enhancements introduced in Splunk 6.4:

  • The index now supports replication of data model and report acceleration summaries. Until Splunk 6.3, if the index failed, the data model and report acceleration summaries were required to be regenerated. In Splunk 6.4, depending on the replication factor, the data model and report acceleration will also be replicated to survive failures.

  • In case of overheads or nonperformance of any indexer, the index can be quarantined. This feature restricts any new searches using this indexer, whereas any running searches will continue till the index search gets completed.

  • The search head now supports replication of the search peer. This feature enables us to add any nonclustered indexers to a search head cluster. Search head enhancement in Splunk...