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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

Single value


The Splunk single value visualization is used to represent information or the result of the Splunk command, which is basically a single value that can be a number/statistics/single information on which an inference can be made. Like a single value, visualization can be used to represent a number of errors, number of visitors, number of fraud detected, number of failures, last error occurred, top users, number of invalid accounts, time of last failure, and so on.

Splunk 6.3 has enhanced single value visualization with various functional customizations such as adding trend indicators, Sparkline, labels, and other aesthetic customizations by adding custom CSS. You will now learn how to create single value visualization on the Splunk Web console.

The following is the list of customizations and formatting that can be done on a single value:

  • Single value: This is the basic one that is by default with no customization and formatting. It will just display the number or text returned by...