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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By : James H. Baxter
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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By: James H. Baxter

Overview of this book

Splunk is a leading platform and solution for collecting, searching, and extracting value from ever increasing amounts of big data - and big data is eating the world! This book covers all the crucial Splunk topics and gives you the information and examples to get the immediate job done. You will find enough insights to support further research and use Splunk to suit any business environment or situation. Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide gives you a thorough understanding of how Splunk works. You will learn about all the critical tasks for architecting, implementing, administering, and utilizing Splunk Enterprise to collect, store, retrieve, format, analyze, and visualize machine data. You will find step-by-step examples based on real-world experience and practical use cases that are applicable to all Splunk environments. There is a careful balance between adequate coverage of all the critical topics with short but relevant deep-dives into the configuration options and steps to carry out the day-to-day tasks that matter. By the end of the book, you will be a confident and proficient Splunk architect and administrator.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

We've covered a lot in this chapter, but I think and hope that this coverage of how to create Splunk apps install and configure some of the free apps available from Splunkbase, configure permissions, and understand where and how these apps are manifested in the Splunk directory structure will help you to solidify your overall knowledge of how Splunk works. I especially hope you will install and configure the Add-on for your particular operating system(s), and work with DB Connect and the MLTK, as these are both very useful and valuable additions to your Splunk deployment.

In the next, and final, chapter, we'll cover how to monitor and troubleshoot your Splunk deployment, and introduce a few advanced topics.