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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

Installing the Splunk SDK


We already know that the Splunk SDK is available for most of the popular programming languages, but we will concentrate on the Splunk SDK for Python on a Windows OS in detail in this chapter.

The Splunk SDK is available for download from the Splunk website (http://dev.splunk.com/sdks) and the Splunk SDK for Python can be directly downloaded from http://dev.splunk.com/goto/sdk-python.

The SDK is for Python, and hence, Python should be already installed to use the Splunk SDK for Python. According to Splunk documentation, the Splunk SDK supports Python 2.6 or higher but does not support Python 3.

The Python SDK can be installed in Windows using Python's Setuptools or by downloading the Python SDK from the preceding link manually. The Python SDK can be installed from the Command Prompt as follows:

  1. Download Setuptools from the Python website (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) and in Command Prompt, navigate to the Setuptools folder and type Python easy_install.py...