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Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered

By : Derek Mock, Betsy Page Sigman, Paul R. Johnson, Erickson Delgado, Josh Diakun, Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered

By: Derek Mock, Betsy Page Sigman, Paul R. Johnson, Erickson Delgado, Josh Diakun, Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Overview of this book

Splunk is an extremely powerful tool for searching, exploring, and visualizing data of all types. Splunk is becoming increasingly popular, as more and more businesses, both large and small, discover its ease and usefulness. Analysts, managers, students, and others can quickly learn how to use the data from their systems, networks, web traffic, and social media to make attractive and informative reports. This course will teach everything right from installing and configuring Splunk. The first module is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You’ll start with very basics of Splunk— installing Splunk— before then moving 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. With more than 70 recipes on hand in the second module that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization. Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems in the third module. 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. This learning path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer into one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: • Splunk Essentials - Second Edition • Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Second Edition • Advanced Splunk
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 7. Enriching Data – Lookups and Workflows

In this chapter, we will learn how to augment and enrich the data within Splunk. You will learn about:

  • Looking up product code descriptions
  • Flagging suspect IP addresses
  • Creating a session state table
  • Adding hostnames to IP addresses
  • Searching ARIN for a given IP address
  • Triggering a Google search for a given error
  • Creating a ticket for application errors
  • Looking up inventory from an external database

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you continued to improve your Splunk search and analytical skills by creating highly advanced searches that leveraged more of the deep analytical commands to gain more operational intelligence from the data contained within the logs. In this chapter, you will leverage Splunk's lookup functionality to enrich these results with the data found outside of the logs. You will also use Splunk's workflow functionality to perform some simple actions on the data that you discovered.

Lookups

Lookups...