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Improving Your Splunk Skills

By : James D. Miller, Paul R. Johnson, Josh Diakun, Derek Mock
Book Image

Improving Your Splunk Skills

By: James D. Miller, Paul R. Johnson, Josh Diakun, Derek Mock

Overview of this book

Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data and drive your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. Through this Learning Path, you'll implement new services and utilize them to quickly and efficiently process machine-generated big data. You'll begin with an introduction to the new features, improvements, and offerings of Splunk 7. You'll learn to efficiently use wildcards and modify your search to make it faster. You'll learn how to enhance your applications by using XML dashboards and configuring and extending Splunk. You'll also find step-by-step demonstrations that'll walk you through building an operational intelligence application. As you progress, you'll explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the skills and confidence to implement various Splunk services in your projects. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Implementing Splunk 7 - Third Edition by James Miller Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition by Paul R Johnson, Josh Diakun, et al
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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User interface resources

Most Splunk apps consist mainly of resources for the web application. The app layout for these resources is completely different from all other configurations.

Views and navigation

Like .conf files, view and navigation documents take precedence in the following order:

  • $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/$username/$appname/local: When a new dashboard is created, it lands here. It will remain here until the permissions are changed to App or Global.
  • $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/$appname/local: Once a document is shared, it will be moved to this directory.
  • $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/$appname/default: Documents can only be placed here manually. You should do this if you are going to share an app. Unlike .conf files, these documents do...