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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

Null search swapper


We have already learned tokens and the use of eval tokens; now we will learn to use conditional tokens to set and unset the search query of a panel depending upon the result of the conditional tokens. Conditional tokens work similarly to an if loop used in programming languages. In a null search swapper, we will set tokens from the search manager to control behaviors on the page. Each search result outputs metadata around the search, the job, the server, and even the results. This feature helps users to access and set tokens from that metadata to be used throughout the page.

The null search swapper can be used to hide visualization if the result of a search query is null/empty. This kind of customization can be very useful when building highly dynamic dashboards for enterprises. For instance, the null search swapper can be used to hide a specific panel if the search result outputs nothing. So, since now the output is available instead of occupying space in the dashboard...