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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

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

Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

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

Lookups

Lookups are used to enrich log data with additional data not found in the log events themselves. They allow you to key off one or more fields in the event data and add additional fields to this data. These additional...