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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

Visualizations


Splunk 6.4 has added support of 12 new advanced visualizations directly in the Visualization panel. Some of the new visualizations in Splunk 6.4 were possible in the earlier version of Splunk, that is, Splunk 6.3 using the D3 extension plugin along with the use of customized JS and CSS. Splunk 6.4 adds capability to create any new visualization that can be installed as a plugin directly and share it with other fellow Splunk users.

The following is the list of visualizations introduced in Splunk 6.4 that can be selected and used from the Visualization tab of the Splunk dashboard. When it is said that Splunk 6.4 supports inbuilt visualizations, this means that these visualizations can be directly downloaded from the app store, and the visualizations gets added in the Visualization tab.

The following is the list of visualizations that we have covered in this book in various chapters of visualization using custom CSS and JS. In Splunk 6.4, these visualization apps can be directly...