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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

Geography and location


Here, you will learn how we can add geographical information in the current dataset by referencing to the IP address, or if the data already has location information, then how that data can be made visualization ready on the world map.

The iplocation command

The Splunk iplocation command is a powerful command that extracts location information such as city, country, continent, latitude, longitude, region, zip code, time zone, and so on from the IP address. This command can be used to extract relevant geographic and location information, and those extracted fields can be used to filter and, create statistical analytics based on location information. Let's suppose we have data with IP addresses of users making transactions on the website. Using the iplocation command, we can find the exact location and analytics, such as the highest number of transactions done from which state or continent, or in a location an e-commerce site is more popular. Such kind of location-based...