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Implementing Splunk (Update)

Implementing Splunk (Update)

By : VINCENT BUMGARNER, James D. Miller
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Implementing Splunk (Update)

Implementing Splunk (Update)

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By: VINCENT BUMGARNER, James D. Miller

Overview of this book

If you are a data analyst with basic knowledge of Big Data analysis but no knowledge of Splunk, then this book will help you get started with Splunk. The book assumes that you have access to a copy of Splunk, ideally not in production, and many examples also assume you have administrator rights.
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Our dashboard menu includes three selections (in the upper-right corner, as shown in the following screenshot). We have already explored the first (Add Panel) in this chapter. Let's now move on to Add Input:

Add input

Adding an input to your dashboard will convert it to a form. All dashboards are actually made up of XML code (we touched a bit on this earlier when we introduced prebuilt panels). In the next section (Edit Source), we will dive deep into this topic but for now, understand that the dashboard that we have created is made up of or defined by the XML which Splunk is using, and adding any type of input will modify the underlying XML (in fact, after adding any input, the xml tag <dashboard> is changed to <form>).

Once you click Add Input, you can select an input from the list shown in the following screenshot:

For example, you can select Text to add a text field for user input. You can have more than one input on your dashboard, and you can drag inputs...

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