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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)

Using Splunkbase

Splunkbase is a site where users post and share apps and add-ons with the Splunk community. You can browse and install apps and add-ons from Splunkbase on any running Splunk instance, or download the file to your personal computer and install it from there if the Splunk instance doesn't have internet access. Splunkbase has over 1,000 apps and add-ons from Splunk, Splunk partners, and the user community. You can get to Splunkbase from a Splunk instance by clicking Apps | Browse More Apps (or Find More Apps). If you want to get to Splunkbase from your PC, the URL is https://splunkbase.splunk.com/.

You can browse though all the available apps by category, vendor, or other groupings, or click See All Apps, which takes you to a page where you can select various filters that you can apply to narrow your search and a search field where you can enter a few keywords...