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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)

Alerting on failure and triggering a chat notification

By now, you have used every different type of alert available and many of the more common alert actions such as emailing. However, one powerful alert action feature we have yet to touch upon is the ability to leverage webhooks when an alert triggers.

In this recipe, you will create a simple, real-time, per-result alert that triggers when any 503 HTTP web server errors are detected. Upon triggering, the alert will leverage a webhook to make an HTTP POST request on a URL. The webhook will pass JSON formatted information about the alert in the body of the POST request and trigger a notification message to pop up in a chat application.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe...