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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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Scheduling the generation of dashboards

As we stepped through the wizard interface to create panels, we accepted the default value of running the search each time the dashboard loads. As we mentioned earlier, this means that the user is penalized each and every time the dashboard is loaded in their web browser. It is silly (and a waste of resources) to rerun what may be multiple searches that are within a dashboard panel if the data that the search is based upon does not change very often. For example, if the indexed data is updated every evening, then rerunning a search on that data multiple times within the same day will not yield different results and would be a waste of resources.

A more prudent approach would be to convert the dashboard panels to not use inline, executed-at-load-time searches but reference reports instead (earlier in this chapter, we covered Convert to Report...