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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

Adding data to Splunk – new interfaces


Splunk Enterprise introduced new interfaces to accept data that is compatible with constrained resources and lightweight devices for Internet of Things. Splunk Enterprise version 6.3 supports HTTP Event Collector and REST and JSON APIs for data collection on Splunk.

HTTP Event Collector is a very useful interface that can be used to send data without using any forwarder from your existing application to the Splunk Enterprise server. HTTP APIs are available in .NET, Java, Python, and almost all the programming languages. So, forwarding data from your existing application that is based on a specific programming language becomes a cake walk.

Let's take an example, say, you are a developer of an Android application, and you want to know what all features the user uses that are the pain areas or problem-causing screens. You also want to know the usage pattern of your application. So, in the code of your Android application, you can use REST APIs to forward...