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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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Receiving data using the HTTP Event Collector

The HTTP Event Collector (HEC) is another highly scalable way of getting data into Splunk. The HEC listens for HTTP requests containing JSON objects and sends the data that has been collected to be indexed.

In this recipe, you will learn how to configure the Splunk HTTP Event Collector to receive data coming from an example Inventory Scanner. This example inventory scan HEC configuration will be used in Chapter 15, Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, REST API, HTTP Event Collector, and SDKs.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface and using the Splunk...