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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)

Troubleshooting Splunk

A Splunk Enterprise deployment is a fairly complex system, and while it is by nature a stable, reliable, and intuitive platform to work with, things can go wrong usually because of configuration or loading issues. We'll cover a few of the most common problems you'll run across in this section, and how to detect and resolve them. However, if you're going to be maintaining a larger Splunk environment, I highly recommend that you read through the Troubleshooting Manual and take the Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise training class, as both do an excellent job of explaining more of the technical details of how Splunk works under the covers and the various logs and other sources of information to help with troubleshooting. Here are the links to these two resources:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Troubleshooting/Whatsinhere
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