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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

Chapter 8. Dashboard Customization

We have already learned how to create analytics and visualization over the data on Splunk; now, in this chapter, we will learn to create fully customized, dynamic, and user-interactive dashboards. Splunk provides various customizations by default via Splunk Web console, whereas there are various customizations which can be brought into dashboards via some coding tweaks and using external plugins. In this chapter, we will go through various dashboard customization techniques, which can be implemented to make the most of the data on Splunk. We will learn to make more user-interactive, user-friendly, and user-customizable dashboards in this chapter with examples.

The following are the topics which will be covered in this chapter and explained with the help of examples and code snippets:

  • Dashboard controls

  • Multi-search management

  • Tokens

  • Null search swapper

  • Switcher