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Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By : Betsy Page Sigman, Soni, Erickson Delgado
Book Image

Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

By: Betsy Page Sigman, 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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Chapter 5.  Data Optimization, Reports, Alerts, and Accelerating Searches

Finding the data that you need in Splunk is relatively easy, as you have seen in the previous chapters. Doing the same thing repeatedly, however, requires that you employ techniques that make data retrieval faster. In Chapter 2, Bringing in Data, you have been shown how to use data fields and to make field extractions. In Chapter 4, Data Models and Pivot, you learned how to create data models. You will continue that journey in this chapter by learning how to classify your data using event types, enrich your data using lookups and workflow actions, and normalize your data using tags.

Once you have all these essentials in place, you will be able to easily create reports, alerts, and dashboards. This is where Splunk really shines and your hard work so far will pay off.

In this chapter, we will cover a wide range of topics that showcase ways to manage, analyze, and get results from data. These topics will help...