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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

Geospatial visualization


The Splunk visualization list has two types of visualizations to show geographical data on maps. Maps visualization can be used from the visualization list to show data on the geographical world map. In its version 6.3, Splunk introduced powerful choropleth visualization to show more metrics and much more customized data mapping on maps to get insight from the data belonging to the geospatial domain. Choropleth visualization can be used to spot the pattern to sense the complete insight on the data.

Splunk used standard definition to describe the boundaries of colored polygons on choropleth maps visualization. Splunk 6.3 has included countries' maps updated with the latest boundaries and information and 50 states of the United States by default. That doesn't mean that the visualization will be limited to only these two boundaries, but it supports widely used the KMZ format of polygon definition of maps' boundaries and data.

Splunk's choropleth visualization supports...