In the previous chapter, you continued to improve your Splunk search and analytical skills by creating more advanced searches that leveraged more of the deep analytical commands to gain more operational intelligence from the data contained within the logs. In this chapter, you will leverage Splunk's lookup functionality to enrich these results with the data found outside of the logs. You will also use Splunk's workflow functionality to perform some simple actions on the data that you discovered.
Lookups are used to enrich log data with additional data not found in the log events themselves. They allow you to key off one or more fields in the event data and add additional fields to this data. These additional fields are commonly added by looking up the specified fields in a static CSV-based lookup table and then bringing back additional fields associated with that specific entry in the table. However, lookups can also be a lot more dynamic, leveraging Python scripts or...