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Advanced Splunk

Advanced Splunk

By : Tulsiram Yadav
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Advanced Splunk

Advanced Splunk

3.8 (4)
By: Tulsiram Yadav

Overview of this book

Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization – the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how. Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery. Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.
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Sourcetype manager


Sourcetype manager is another very useful provision added in Splunk 6.3, which can be used to manage the sourcetype for on-boarding the data on Splunk. It can be used to manage (create, modify, and delete) sourcetype configurations independent of getting data in and searching within the sourcetype picker. We have already learned in the Chapter 2, Developing Application on Splunk about how to assign and configure sourcetype while uploading the data on Splunk.

Sourcetype manager enlists all the sourcetype configured in the Splunk instance along with the inbuilt default sourcetypes. The sourcetype manager can be accessed by navigating in the Splunk Web console to Settings | Data | Sourcetype.

Now let us learn what can be done from the sourcetype manager:

  • Create a sourcetype: In previous versions of Splunk when sourcetype manager was not present to create a sourcetype, first we needed to add data to Splunk or else the inputs.conf file needed to be configured manually.

    Using the...

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