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Splunk Best Practices

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Splunk Best Practices

Overview of this book

This book will give you an edge over others through insights that will help you in day-to-day instances. When you're working with data from various sources in Splunk and performing analysis on this data, it can be a bit tricky. With this book, you will learn the best practices of working with Splunk. You'll learn about tools and techniques that will ease your life with Splunk, and will ultimately save you time. In some cases, it will adjust your thinking of what Splunk is, and what it can and cannot do. To start with, you'll get to know the best practices to get data into Splunk, analyze data, and package apps for distribution. Next, you'll discover the best practices in logging, operations, knowledge management, searching, and reporting. To finish off, we will teach you how to troubleshoot Splunk searches, as well as deployment, testing, and development with Splunk.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 8. Search Optimization

When we create dashboards quickly, we often create dashboards with existing searches with a different field or displaying a different set of stats results. In this chapter, we will discuss how to optimize these searches for performance in a dashboard as well as how to leverage things such as reports or data models in order to speed up your load times.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Form dashboard optimizations

    • Root search variables

    • Evaluation variables

    • Filter variables

  • Using base searches

    • Post-process functions

  • Using reports to speed up dashboards

    • Referencing summary results from a report

  • Creating a data model

    • Referencing a data model in your search