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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

Splunk apps from the app store


We went through the process of creating, installing, and uninstalling applications on Splunk Enterprise. Now, we will see some examples of applications or add-ons from the Splunk app store that can be used to solve common problems:

  • The Splunk add-on for the Oracle database: This add-on is available on the Splunk app store, and can be downloaded and installed on Splunk to connect with any Oracle database. Logs such as audit trails, trace files, incident, alert, listener, and other logs on the operating system where the Oracle database server is installed will be made available on Splunk, and thus, users can analyze, visualize, and create alerts on the uploaded data from the Splunk add-on for Oracle.

  • Browsing history analysis: Browsing history analysis is a ready-to-use app available on the Splunk app store that can be installed and used to analyze the browsing behavior of the user on the instance on which Splunk is installed. This app scans, extracts, and analyzes...