Splunk Essentials - Second Edition
Betsy Page Sigman, Erickson Delgado
- 236 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Splunk Essentials - Second Edition
Betsy Page Sigman, Erickson Delgado
About This Book
A fast-paced and practical guide to demystifying big data and transforming it into operational intelligenceAbout This Book• Want to get started with Splunk to analyze and visualize machine data? Open this book and step into the world of Splunk.• Leverage the exceptional analysis and visualization capabilities to make informed decisions for your business• This easy-to-follow, practical book can be used by anyone, even if you have never managed any data beforeWho This Book Is ForThis book will be perfect for you if you are a Software engineer or developer or System administrators or Business analyst who seek to correlate machine data with business metrics and provide intuitive real-time and statistical visualizations. Some knowledge or experience of previous versions of Splunk will be helpful but not essential.What You Will Learn• Install and configure Splunk• Gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields• Be comfortable with the Search Processing Language and get to know the best practices in writing search queries• Create stunning and powerful dashboards• Be proactive by implementing alerts and scheduled reports• Use the Splunk SDK and integrate Splunk data into other applications• Implement the best practices in using Splunk.In DetailSplunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption on the market. More and more organizations want to adopt Splunk to use their data to make informed decisions.This book is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You'll start with very basics of Splunk— installing Splunk—and then move on to searching machine data with Splunk. You will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, you will learn to create various reports, XML forms, and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot Model to transform the data models into visualization. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you'll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.Style and approachThis fast-paced, example-rich guide will help you analyze and visualize machine data with Splunk through simple, practical instructions.
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Authors Betsy Page Sigman Erickson Delgado | Copy Editor Safis Editing |
Reviewer Somesh Soni | Project Coordinator Suzanne Coutinho |
Commissioning Editor Veena Pagare | Proofreader Safis Editing |
Acquisition Editor Vinay Argekar | Indexer Rekha Nair |
Content Development Editor Nikhil Borkar | Production Coordinator Aparna Bhagat |
Technical Editor Madhunikita Sunil Chindarkar |
About the Authors
A big thank you to Nikhil Borkar and Vinay Argekar and the other editors and staff at Packt Publishing for your help in every step along the way to finishing this book. Thanks also to my colleagues and students at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Thanks especially to Bill Garr, Rob Pongsajapan, Marie Selvanandin, and Kristin Bolling, and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), for exploring the exciting world of big data and Splunk together. It has been a wonderful place to learn, grow, and serve for the last 16 years.
I need to thank my brothers, Tim and Rick Page, for being there to challenge and encourage me throughout my life. Most of all, I want to thank my brilliant and wonderful husband, Chuck, my astonishing daughter and son-in-law, Page and Daniel Thies, and my three sons. Johnny, thanks for always inspiring me technologically; Richard, thanks for your sense of humor that keeps us all laughing; and James, thanks for always being there for all of us. Edward and Peter, the grandsons who light up all our lives, are too young to read this now. They were born into an extraordinary world—one that I hope and pray technology will continue to improve.
To my wife, Emma, thank you for the never-ending support and patience.