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Advanced Splunk

By : Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
Book Image

Advanced Splunk

By: Ashish Kumar 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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Advanced Splunk
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Splunk SDK


An SDK plays a very important role in integrating the power of Splunk's real-time analytics and visualization in legacy/proprietary applications. Industries and organizations use some or the other tool to generate analytics and visualization. However, legacy/propriety tools may not be scalable to handle big data and provide real-time analytics, and hence Splunk comes to the rescue. It may not be possible to replace the current tools used in the workflow, and hence, the Splunk SDK can be used to integrate with the current tool to utilize the power of Splunk.

The Splunk SDK is available in almost all the programming languages, such as C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.

The following are the scenarios where the Splunk SDK can be useful:

  • It can be integrated with current workflow tools seamlessly to utilize the power of Splunk's big data analytics and visualization in real time.

  • An SDK can help in logging data in the Splunk server directly from the application; that is,...