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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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Highlighting average product price

As we have seen in previous recipes, visualizing data with charts can be a great way to gain visibility into the meaning of your data. However, certain types of data may be best represented by a table rather than a chart. In these cases, we can add some visual benefit by highlighting specific cells based on some logic that we define.

This recipe will show you how to create a new dashboard panel containing a table of purchase locations for the past week and how to highlight the cell based on the average purchase price. We will then place this new dashboard into the Operational Intelligence application.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with...