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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

Charts


Splunk's inbuilt visualization has many types of inbuilt charts such as an area chart, a line chart, bar chart, column chart, pie chart, scatter chart, bubble chart, and so on. Inbuilt visualization can be used depending on the commands used and the type of data. Depending on the data and commands, Splunk shows the recommended type of charts, but users can choose the chart type according to their requirement and suitability to depict information.

Charts – Coloring

The general formatting options for charts are defining a legend and its positioning, custom title for x and y axis, defining the interval, min values, and max values for the charts which are present in the Format option. The chart's Format option doesn't provide users with the option to change the color of the charts and their background.

We will now see how to use custom CSS and JS and how colors of charts and their background can be customized.

Our search query is as follows:

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