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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By : James H. Baxter
Book Image

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)

The Splunk Web interface

You can log into Splunk Web using the appropriate URL and the default port of 8000: http://<hostname or ip address>:8000. If you have configured Splunk to use HTTPS (a good idea), you will need to reflect the port you configured in the web.conf file. Another example, using a fully-qualified domain name, is https://mysplunkserver.mycompany.com:8443. After logging in with your username and password, you will be presented with the Home interface (unless you'd selected another default page in the past), which features a list of clickable icons for all the installed applications along the left-side. One of the icons along the left side menu will be Search & Reporting click that icon to open the Search interface:

Fig 6.1: Splunk launch page

At this point, you're ready to enter a search command using Search Processing Language (SPL...