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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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Adding Cell Icons to Highlight Average Product Price

As you saw in the Adding a Sankey diagram of web hits and Developing a tag cloud of purchases by country recipes, visualizing data with charts can be a great way to gain visibility into meaning of your data. However, some types of data are best visualized using a table. In this case, you can get some added benefit by highlighting specific cells based on some logic that we can control.

This recipe will show you how to create a new dashboard panel containing a table of purchase locations for the past week. You will then add icons to cells within the table, to better highlight and visualize the average purchase price.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running...