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Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By : Betsy Page Sigman, Erickson Delgado
Book Image

Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By: Betsy Page Sigman, 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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Splunk Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 3. Search Processing Language

In the previous chapters, you learned how to collect and index data to prepare it for searching, and how to do a simple search. In this chapter, we will cover more about how to use search and other commands to analyze our data. In a nutshell, we will cover the following topics:

  • Anatomy of a search

  • Search pipeline

  • Time modifiers

  • Filtering searches

  • Search command-stats

  • Search command-top/rare

  • Search commands-chart and timechart

  • Search command-eval

  • Search command-rex