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Advanced Splunk

By : Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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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

Tables


Most of the Splunk commands result in an output that is in a tabular format and displayed in the Statistical tab on Splunk Web. Now, you will learn about all the feature customizations and formatting that can be done on the tabular output.

Tables – Data overlay

The important point to note here is that the Table output is available on the Statistical tab and not on the Visualization tab. The tabular output is basically a simple table displaying the output of a search query. The tabular output can be obtained by either using statistical and charting functions, such as stats, charts, timecharts, or various other reporting and trending commands.

The following is the list of formatting and customization options available directly from the Splunk Web console in the Format option of the tabular output:

  • Wrap result: Whether the result should be wrapped can be enabled or disabled from here.

  • Row numbers: This option can enable the row number in the result.

  • Drilldown: The tabular output can be...