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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

The custom alert action


The Splunk dashboard can be configured to implement custom alerting actions. Splunk can be integrated with other enterprise applications to automate the workflow and thus increase efficiency.

What is alerting?

Splunk is a big data tool with lots of data streaming in every second from numerous different sources, and there can be multiple dashboards and use case scenarios implemented on Splunk. It would be difficult to keep monitoring all the dashboards for any issue when it arises in real time. Hence, whenever any specific condition is met, an alert can be sent in the form of an e-mail, SMS, or chat notification informing the admin that the defined condition has been found on the data.

Thus, the feature of alerting in Splunk helps to avoid monitoring of the dashboard live and 24 x 7 for issues and thus reduces manpower. Since the process is automated, there will not be a single instance when the specific issue is caused and not reported. Thus, the alerting feature increases...