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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

Prerequisites – configuration settings


The Splunk command usually opens the Statistics tab by default when we run Splunk search queries over the web console. The following are generic steps to be taken to view the respective visualization on the Splunk Web dashboard. When we run a search command on Splunk, the results are shown in the Statistics tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the output is available and a statistical command is used in the search query, when we click on the Visualization tab, the default visualization will be visible, as shown in the following screenshot. The top-left option, Format, can be used to format of the visualization:

The respective visualization can be chosen from the visualization picker (marked with a rectangular box in the preceding screenshot), which is available at the top-left corner of the Visualization tab. The following screenshot shows the default visualization available in Splunk, and apart from the following visualization, custom and...