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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

Developing a Splunk app


Developing or creating a simple Splunk application is very easy in Splunk Enterprise, but developing a Splunk app that solves a business problem specific to a use case requires the following basic process:

  1. On-boarding data on Splunk: Using various data input methods to upload data on Splunk.

  2. Analytics: Using the Splunk search query language to create meaningful insights into the data uploaded on Splunk.

  3. Visualization: Creating visualizations for better understanding of the uploaded data on Splunk.

A Splunk app can include various components of Splunk Enterprise, such as data inputs, search queries, custom dashboards, macros, custom CSS, JavaScript, and many more…

Creating the Splunk application and technology add-on

The Splunk application framework works on a directory structure. All the installed and, by default, available applications are available at $SPLUNK_HOME\etc\apps.

The following procedure needs to be followed to create a sample Splunk app via the Splunk Web...