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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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Chart enhancements in version 7.0

Splunk provides a fine collection of charting resources to be used for creating dashboards. You can check the full Chart configuration reference in the documentation found at:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/ChartConfigurationReference

In version 7.0, they've gone on and expanded the charting collection by adding some cool, new chart enhancements that increase the selection of visual styles and chart options, all geared to improving the visualization of metrics and multi-series monitoring use cases.

Line width, line style, and a new series comparison option in the legend are included in these enhancements, and all are editable by SimpleXML.

Let's take a look at a few of these new options.

charting.lineWidth

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