Implementing Splunk - Second Edition

A comprehensive guide to help you transform Big Data into valuable business insights with Splunk 6.2 In Detail Splunk is a type of analysis and reporting software for analyzing machine-generated Big Data. It captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations. It aims to make machine data accessible across an organization for a variety of purposes. Implementing Splunk Second Edition is a learning guide that introduces you to all the latest features and improvements of Splunk 6.2. The book starts by introducing you to various concepts such as charting, reporting, clustering, and visualization. Every chapter is dedicated to enhancing your knowledge of a specific concept, including data models and pivots, speeding up your queries, backfilling, data replication, and so on. By the end of the book, you'll have a very good understanding of Splunk and be able to perform efficient data analysis. What You Will Learn Enrich your data with lookups and commands Transform your data into useful and beautiful reports Build professional-looking, informative dashboards Get to know what Splunk data models and pivots are Learn about pivot editor, pivot elements, filters, Sparklines, and more Manage configurations from one to thousands of instances Extend Splunk with scripts and advanced configuration Create fields from your unstructured data Write searches that are fast and lean Downloading the example code for this book. You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.