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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)

Supporting your Splunk Deployment

As important and challenging as setting up an efficient Splunk environment is, it is equally important - and sometimes just as challenging - to ensure that you have taken adequate measures to fund and support your Splunk solution so that it continues to provide value well into the future. We'll address several of the most important points in this section.

Splunk support personnel

As a rule of thumb, Splunk recommends a minimum of three Splunk support personnel for any significant Splunk deployment. With the following roles and related training/certification and experience, these roles and duties can overlap or be altered depending on the needs of the organization and skill sets within...