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Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition - Third Edition

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Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Splunk is the leading platform that fosters an efficient methodology and delivers ways to search, monitor, and analyze growing amounts of big data. This book will allow you to implement new services and utilize them to quickly and efficiently process machine-generated big data. We introduce you to all the new features, improvements, and offerings of Splunk 7. We cover the new modules of Splunk: Splunk Cloud and the Machine Learning Toolkit to ease data usage. Furthermore, you will learn to use search terms effectively with Boolean and grouping operators. You will learn not only how to modify your search to make your searches fast but also how to use wildcards efficiently. Later you will learn how to use stats to aggregate values, a chart to turn data, and a time chart to show values over time; you'll also work with fields and chart enhancements and learn how to create a data model with faster data model acceleration. Once this is done, you will learn about XML Dashboards, working with apps, building advanced dashboards, configuring and extending Splunk, advanced deployments, and more. Finally, we teach you how to use the Machine Learning Toolkit and best practices and tips to help you implement Splunk services effectively and efficiently. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the Splunk software as a whole and implemented Splunk services in your tasks at projects
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Included apps


Without apps, Splunk has no user interface, rendering it essentially useless. Luckily, Splunk comes with a few apps to get us started. We'll now take a look at a few of these apps.

The Splunk Web Framework is not really an app, but a framework for developers who want to create experiences using Splunk and its analytical capabilities. The Splunk Web Framework lets you quickly create custom apps by using prebuilt components, styles, templates, and reusable samples and adding your own custom logic, interactions, reusable components, and UI:

  • Introspection_generator_addon: Refers to the data that Splunk Enterprise logs and uses to populate the _introspection index, generating data about your Splunk instance and environment. It writes that data to log files to aid in reporting on system resource utilization and troubleshooting problems.
  • splunk_monitoring_console (or previously referred to as distributed management console): Provides the ability to view detailed performance information...