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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

Reports


You will now learn reporting commands that are used to format the data so that it can be visualized using various visualizations available on Splunk. Reporting commands are transforming commands that transform event data returned by searches in tables that can be used for visualizations.

The makecontinuous command

The Splunk command makecontinuous is used to make x-axis field continuous to plot it for visualization. This command adds empty buckets for the period where no data is available. Once the specified field is made continuous, then charts/stats/timechart commands can be used for graphical visualizations.

The syntax for the makecontinuous command is as follows:

… | makecontinous
    Field_name
    bin_options

The parameter description of the makecontinuous command is as follows:

  • Field_name: The name of the field that is to be plotted on the x axis can be specified.

  • Bin_Options: This parameter can be used to specify the options for discretization. This is a required parameter and...