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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

Calendar heatmap visualization


Calendar heatmap visualization is derived from traditional heat map visualization where the data is plotted on Calendar. Calendar heatmap can be plotted in a way such that, month can be used as a column, days as a row and data points being a data with different colors or shades of color. Calendar heatmap can be a good visualization to display time series data varying across time. According to Google's definition of calendar heatmap visualization, it is used to show activity/transaction over a long period of time, say months or years. It can be useful to display activity trends over time.

Example

Let's now learn what information can be derived from Calendar heatmap visualization, and then, we will look at the implementation of this visualization on the Splunk dashboard.

The data used for this visualization is the test data from the web server. It has the time and count of any failed transaction. The statistical data used to create calendar heatmap is described...