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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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Using summary index events in a query

After the query to populate the summary index has run for some time, we can use the results in other queries.

If you're in a hurry or need to report against slices of time before the query was created, you will need to backfill your summary index. See the How and when to backfill summary data section for details about calculating the summary values for past events.

First, let's look at what actually goes into the summary index:

08/15/2012 10:00:00, search_name="summary - count by user", 
search_now=1345046520.000, info_min_time=1345042800.000, info_max_ 
time=1345046400.000, info_search_time=1345050512.340, count=17, 
user=mary 

Breaking this event down, we have the following:

  • 08/15/2012 10:00:00: This is the time at the beginning of this block of data. This is consistent with how timechart and bucket work.
  • search_name...