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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Josh Diakun, Paul R. Johnson, Derek Mock
Book Image

Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Josh Diakun, Paul R. Johnson, Derek Mock

Overview of this book

Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data, and with Splunk Operational Cookbook, you can be confident that you are taking advantage of the Big Data revolution and driving your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. With more than 80 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization. You’ll discover recipes on data processing, searching and reporting, dashboards, and visualizations to make data shareable, communicable, and most importantly meaningful. You’ll also find step-by-step demonstrations that walk you through building an operational intelligence application containing vital features essential to understanding data and to help you successfully integrate a data-driven way of thinking in your organization. Throughout the book, you’ll dive deeper into Splunk, explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities, and perform advanced searching with machine learning to explore your data in even more sophisticated ways. Splunk is changing the business landscape, so make sure you’re taking advantage of it.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Pivoting slowest responding web pages

In the past couple of recipes, we worked with the Application data model and added some additional reports to the Product Monitoring dashboard related to sales and customer location. In the next couple of recipes, you will look at the operational health of our environment and begin creating an Operational Monitoring dashboard.

The response time of a web application is one of the most important factors in determining overall user experience, and high response times could lead to lost customers, who are not prepared to deal with slow loading web pages.

In this recipe, you will use the Pivot tool to table the response times for the various web pages on our web application and identify the pages that are taking the longest to load. You will add this report to a new Operational Monitoring dashboard.

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