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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

Dashboard controls


In this section, we will learn about various control options related to display, input, and panel of the Splunk dashboard. We will learn the use of various dashboard controls, with examples, and then we will also learn how to implement the respective controls on Splunk.

HTML dashboard

We are already aware how to create dashboards on Splunk. The Splunk dashboards are by default in XML format, but Splunk supports the feature to convert the Simple XML dashboard to an HTML dashboard. The features that are not available under Simple XML can be implemented by converting the dashboard to HTML, which is based on the SplunkJS component of Splunk Web framework.

The following are the steps to be followed to convert any simple XML dashboard to an HTML dashboard:

  1. On any XML dashboard which is to be converted or exported into an HTML dashboard, click on the Edit button.

  2. From the Edit menu, choose the Convert to HTML option.

  3. While converting to HTML, two options are available: either to create...