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Mastering Splunk

Mastering Splunk

By : James D. Miller
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Mastering Splunk

Mastering Splunk

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By: James D. Miller
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Overview of this book

This book is for those Splunk developers who want to learn advanced strategies to deal with big data from an enterprise architectural perspective. You need to have good working knowledge of Splunk.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. The Application of Splunk
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1. The Application of Splunk
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The definition of Splunk
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Universal file handling
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Confidentiality and security
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Conventional use cases
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Splunk – outside the box
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Splunk in action
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Summary
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2. Advanced Searching
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2. Advanced Searching
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Searching in Splunk
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Knowledge management
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Subsearching
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Searching with parameters
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Splunk macros
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Search results
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Summary
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3. Mastering Tables, Charts, and Fields
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3. Mastering Tables, Charts, and Fields
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Tables, charts, and fields
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Splunk bucketing
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Drilldowns
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Pivot
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Split
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Column values
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Pivot table formatting
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A quick example
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Sparklines
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Summary
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4. Lookups
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4. Lookups
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Introduction
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Configuring a simple field lookup
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Command roundup
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Summary
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5. Progressive Dashboards
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5. Progressive Dashboards
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Creating effective dashboards
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Form searching
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Going back to dashboards
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More on searching
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Dynamic drilldowns
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Real-world, real-time solutions
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6. Indexes and Indexing
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6. Indexes and Indexing
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The importance of indexing
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What is a Splunk index?
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Indexes, indexers, and clusters
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Managing Splunk indexes
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Dealing with multiple indexes
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Deleting your indexes and indexed data
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Configuring indexes
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Moving your index database
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Spreading out your Splunk index
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Size matters
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Hitting the limits
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7. Evolving your Apps
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7. Evolving your Apps
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Basic applications
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BYO or build your own apps
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App FAQs
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The end-to-end customization of Splunk
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Preparation for app development
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Summary
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8. Monitoring and Alerting
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8. Monitoring and Alerting
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What to monitor
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Advanced monitoring
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Location, location, location
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Leveraging your forwarders
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Can I use apps?
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Windows inputs in Splunk
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Getting started with monitoring
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What does Splunk do with the data it monitors?
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Splunk
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Viewing the Splunk Deployment Monitor app
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All about alerts
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Editing alerts
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Scheduled or real time
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Extended functionalities
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9. Transactional Splunk
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9. Transactional Splunk
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Transactions and transaction types
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Transaction search
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Advanced use of transactions
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10. Splunk – Meet the Enterprise
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10. Splunk – Meet the Enterprise
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General concepts
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Best practices
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Definition of Splunk knowledge
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Strategic knowledge management
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Splunk object management with knowledge management
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Naming conventions for documentation
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Testing
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Retrofitting
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The enterprise vision
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A. Quick Start
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A. Quick Start
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Topics
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Where and how to learn Splunk
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Certifications
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The Splunk documentation
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www.splunk.com
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Splunk answers
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Splunkbase
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The support portal
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The Splexicon
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The "How-to" tutorials
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User conferences, blogs, and news groups
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Professional services
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Obtaining the Splunk software
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An environment to learn in
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Index
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Index

Chapter 5. Progressive Dashboards

This chapter will explain the default Splunk dashboard and then expand on the advanced features offered by Splunk for making business-effective dashboards.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating effective dashboards
  • Using panels
  • XML
  • Searching
  • Dynamic drilldowns
  • Real-time solutions
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