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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

Sunburst sequence


Splunk supports various advanced visualizations, and now, you will learn how sunburst visualization can be implemented in Splunk dashboards and what type of data can be best visualized in a sunburst sequence.

What is a sunburst sequence?

A sunburst sequence chart is sometimes also known as a ring chart. A multilevel pie chart is a chart that can be used to display a hierarchical type of data and its overall distribution in a circular pie chart like visualization. It is a multi-circle chart in which each ring represents a level of hierarchy with the innermost circle as the top level of hierarchy. A sunburst chart having multiple levels depicts how inner and outer rings are related, and a sunburst sequence without hierarchical data looks like a doughnut chart. The sunburst sequence chart is one of the most effective visualizations to show how one ring is distributed/broken into its contributing constituents.

Example

Let's see how we can implement a sunburst sequence in the Splunk...