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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

Custom chart overlay


You have already learned what chart overlay is and how to create it in a previous chapter (Chapter 6, Visualization). Now, we will see how to create custom chart overlay using a D3 extension. Basically, it is an advanced and more customized visualization option of chart overlay.

Example

Let's look at the tabular dataset that we will use to create custom chart overlay. Later, you will learn how to implement it in the Splunk dashboard.

The following screenshot is the subset of the total dataset that we will use to visualize custom chart overlay:

The preceding dataset that has login failure, login success, and number of visitors along with time from a web server will look like the following screenshot when implemented for D3 custom chart overlay. Hovering the mouse over the chart shows the required relevant information. It also shows that behaviors can be customized from the JavaScript code of custom chart overlay:

Implementation

The following are the steps to be taken in the...