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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

Layout customization


The Splunk dashboard has the option of dragging and dropping panels from controls. Splunk automatically resizes the panel equally as per the number of panels in a row. Now, you will learn to customize the dashboard panel's width and group more than one visualization in a single panel.

Panel width

Let's first understand the need for customizing panel width explicitly when Splunk automatically resizes the panel by itself with the help of an example.

Example

In the following figure, there are three panels in a single row. Panel 1 has Statistical Table, Panel 2 has Line Chart, and Panel 3 has Single Value. Splunk's smart dashboard capability automatically resizes each panel of equal sizes in a row. In the following example, it can be seen that Panel 3 has very less information to display, whereas Panel 2 requires more space to display information properly and efficiently:

Hence, in order to make the dashboard display the required information efficiently, such as the panel that...