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Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By : Betsy Page Sigman, Erickson Delgado
Book Image

Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By: Betsy Page Sigman, Erickson Delgado

Overview of this book

Splunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption on the market. More and more organizations want to adopt Splunk to use their data to make informed decisions. This book is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You’ll start with very basics of Splunk— installing Splunk—and then move on to searching machine data with Splunk. You will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, you will learn to create various reports, XML forms, and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot Model to transform the data models into visualization. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you’ll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Splunk Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Chapter 7. Splunk SDK for JavaScript and D3.js

In this chapter, we go on to learn about the Splunk Software Development Kit (SDK) and D3.js. Unlike previous chapters, here we will learn some special ways to interact with Splunk, ways that will allow us to create interesting and vibrant applications.

Specifically, in this chapter we will do the following:

  • Learn about the Splunk SDK

  • Discuss how the SDK can extract data from Splunk

  • Find out how a website can be set up to show and use data extracted via the Splunk SDK

  • Learn about another important software tool, D3.js, and how it can be used to create useful and impressive data visualizations

We'll begin by talking about Splunk SDKs and how they can be used.