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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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Clicking to modify your search

Though you can probably figure it out by just clicking around, it is worth discussing the behavior of the GUI when moving your mouse around and clicking:

  • Clicking on any word or field value will give you the option to Add to search or Exclude from search the existing search or create a New search, as shown in the following screenshot:
  • Clicking on a word or a field value that is already in the query will give you the option to remove it from the existing query or, as previously, create a new search, as shown in the following screenshot:

Event segmentation

In prior versions of Splunk, event segmentation was configurable through a setting in the Options dialog. In version...