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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 3. On-boarding Data in Splunk

This chapter will detail the most important aspect of Splunk, that is, adding data to Splunk. We will go through the newly added feature in Splunk 6.3 of JSON and REST API format of IoT event collections, HTTP Event Collector, and then, we will cover the various interfaces and options to on-board data on Splunk. We will also study how to manage event segmentation and improvise the data input process.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Deep diving into various input methods and sources
  • Adding data to Splunk—new interfaces
  • Data processing
  • Managing event segmentation
  • Improving the data input process

Deep diving into various input methods and sources

Splunk supports numerous ways to ingest data on its server. Any data generated from a human-readable machine from various sources can be uploaded using data input methods such as files, directories, and TCP/UDP scripts which can be indexed on the Splunk Enterprise server and analytics...