Creating an area chart of the application's functional statistics
Understanding not only how your web page is performing and responding to requests but also underlying applications that you rely on is critical to the success of any website. You need to have a constant pulse on how the application is behaving and if any trends are emerging or correlations are being observed between interdependent pieces of data. The experience a customer has with your website is reliant on the constant high performance of all of its components.
In this recipe, you will write a Splunk search using the timechart command to plot web application memory and response time statistics over a given time period. You will then graphically present these values using an area chart.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with the Splunk search bar, the time range picker, and...