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Splunk Essentials

Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By : Betsy Page Sigman, Somesh Soni, Erickson Delgado
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Splunk Essentials

Splunk Essentials

3.5 (8)
By: Betsy Page Sigman, Somesh Soni, Erickson Delgado

Overview of this book

Splunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption on the market. More and more organizations want to adopt Splunk to use their data to make informed decisions. This book is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You’ll start with very basics of Splunk— installing Splunk—and then move on to searching machine data with Splunk. You will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, you will learn to create various reports, XML forms, and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot Model to transform the data models into visualization. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you’ll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.
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Splunk data sources

Splunk was invented as a way to keep track of and analyze machine data coming from a variety of computerized systems. It is a powerful platform for doing just that. But since its invention, it has been used for a myriad of different data types, including machine data, log data (which is a type of machine data), and social media data. The various types of data that Splunk is often used for are explained in the next few sections.

Machine data

As mentioned previously, much of Splunk's data is machine data. Machine data is data created each time a machine does something, even if it is as seemingly insignificant as a tick on a clock. Each tick has information about its exact time (down to the second) and source, and each of these becomes a field associated with the event (the tick). The term "machine data" can be used in reference to a wide variety of data coming from computerized machines, from servers to operating systems to controllers for robotic assembly...

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