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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook

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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pivot charting top error codes


In this final recipe, you will use the Pivot tool to chart the top error codes over time. Error codes from web application logs generally fall into two main categories, client-side errors and server-side errors. Plotting the error codes over time will help identify which errors are occurring, the types of errors, and when they occur.

While this recipe is slightly less technical to implement than the previous recipe, it will serve to reinforce understanding and less instruction will be provided.

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, and the completed recipes from earlier in this chapter. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to pivot chart the top error codes:

  1. Log in to your Splunk server.

  2. Select the Operational Intelligence application.

  3. Select the Pivot menu item from the application...