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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we showed you how to use the Splunk SDK to safely extract data from Splunk using JavaScript without the risk of exposing authentication credentials to viewers. You have also learned how to use Node.js and the npm. Additionally, you wrote a cron script that pulls data from Splunk and writes it into a local JSON file. And you used the http-server module to initialize a lightweight web server. Finally, you created the web application using D3.js to display a stacked bar chart using Splunk data. In the next chapter, Chapter 8HTTP Event Collector, you will go on to learn about this event collector and how it can be used for many business purposes.