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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By : James H. Baxter
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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By: James H. Baxter

Overview of this book

Splunk is a leading platform and solution for collecting, searching, and extracting value from ever increasing amounts of big data - and big data is eating the world! This book covers all the crucial Splunk topics and gives you the information and examples to get the immediate job done. You will find enough insights to support further research and use Splunk to suit any business environment or situation. Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide gives you a thorough understanding of how Splunk works. You will learn about all the critical tasks for architecting, implementing, administering, and utilizing Splunk Enterprise to collect, store, retrieve, format, analyze, and visualize machine data. You will find step-by-step examples based on real-world experience and practical use cases that are applicable to all Splunk environments. There is a careful balance between adequate coverage of all the critical topics with short but relevant deep-dives into the configuration options and steps to carry out the day-to-day tasks that matter. By the end of the book, you will be a confident and proficient Splunk architect and administrator.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

That wraps up Chapter 1! We've covered what Splunk is and why it's great, you got a free copy of Splunk installed on your laptop so that you can experiment freely with its files and features, and most importantly, started building a basic mental model of how Splunk works and introduced the key concepts around getting data in, parsed, and indexed. We also performed a basic search and got familiar with events and their four key fields. Finally, we covered all the resources that are available to expand your knowledge of Splunk far beyond what can be covered in a Quick Start guide.

In the next chapter, we'll go into the details of designing and implementing a Splunk Enterprise environment from scratch!