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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

Custom decorations


You have learned most of the advanced visualizations that we can implement on the Splunk dashboard along with examples. Now, in this section of the chapter, we will look at how custom decoration can be done on Splunk single value visualization to make it aesthetically pleasing and more informative in terms of using signs/symbols, and color combinations.

Example

Let's look at a few examples of custom decorations that can be implemented on single value visualization, which you have already learned in the previous chapter.

The preceding image shows the default Splunk icons that can be used in a single value to depict specific information. These icons can be made dynamic, and depending on the specified condition, the relevant icons will be shown. This example shows decorations using tokens from search results, HTML panels, and some custom CSS. The icons are displayed using the Splunk Icon font.

Let me explain how the preceding customized decorations can be useful. If the single...