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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)

Generating a chat notification for application errors

When errors or other notable events are detected in your application events, you might wish to carry out some further investigation or remediation measures. Often, this involves generating a notification in a system to alert different teams to the issue.

This recipe will show you how you can take error code data from your search results in Splunk and have it generate a notification in your team chat application, using a Splunk workflow action. Of course, there are tons of different chat systems in use out there, and there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. So, while the principles of this recipe are sound, you might need to configure things slightly differently to work with the ticketing system in use within your own business. For the purposes of this recipe, we will be sending the notification to Slack.

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