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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Josh Diakun, Paul R. Johnson, Derek Mock
Book Image

Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Josh Diakun, Paul R. Johnson, Derek Mock

Overview of this book

Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data, and with Splunk Operational Cookbook, you can be confident that you are taking advantage of the Big Data revolution and driving your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. With more than 80 recipes 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. You’ll discover recipes on data processing, searching and reporting, dashboards, and visualizations to make data shareable, communicable, and most importantly meaningful. You’ll also find step-by-step demonstrations that walk you through building an operational intelligence application containing vital features essential to understanding data and to help you successfully integrate a data-driven way of thinking in your organization. Throughout the book, you’ll dive deeper into Splunk, explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities, and perform advanced searching with machine learning to explore your data in even more sophisticated ways. Splunk is changing the business landscape, so make sure you’re taking advantage of it.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Introduction

In many of the previous chapters, we leveraged Splunk's Search Processing Language (SPL) quite a bit to build searches, reports, and dashboards. In this chapter, we will learn about datasets and will focus on leveraging Splunk's Data Model and Pivot functionality. We will demonstrate how datasets can be leveraged by less technical users to easily build reports, charts, and dashboards.

A dataset in Splunk is best described as a collection of user-defined data that can be leveraged for a specific purpose. Datasets can be viewed and managed from the Datasets Listing page, available from the default menu bar in any Splunk application. There are currently three types of dataset in Splunk:

  • Lookup Datasets
  • Table Datasets
  • Data Model Datasets

These three types of dataset can be visualized using Splunk's Pivot tool and allow users to create dynamic reports...