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Splunk Best Practices

Splunk Best Practices

By : Travis Marlette
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Splunk Best Practices

Splunk Best Practices

4.8 (5)
By: Travis Marlette

Overview of this book

This book will give you an edge over others through insights that will help you in day-to-day instances. When you're working with data from various sources in Splunk and performing analysis on this data, it can be a bit tricky. With this book, you will learn the best practices of working with Splunk. You'll learn about tools and techniques that will ease your life with Splunk, and will ultimately save you time. In some cases, it will adjust your thinking of what Splunk is, and what it can and cannot do. To start with, you'll get to know the best practices to get data into Splunk, analyze data, and package apps for distribution. Next, you'll discover the best practices in logging, operations, knowledge management, searching, and reporting. To finish off, we will teach you how to troubleshoot Splunk searches, as well as deployment, testing, and development with Splunk.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Chapter 3.  Data Scrubbing

Getting data into Splunk can be a long process, and it is often a very important and overlooked process on a Splunk journey. If we do it poorly, there is lots of clean up that we have to do, which is usually much more complicated than just sitting down to plan out how we want our data to get to Splunk, and how we want it to look. This process is known as data scrubbing, or data cleaning. This is the process of breaking events at the proper line, as well as extracting some fields, or masking data before and after Splunk writes it to disk.

Topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Heavy Forwarder management
    • What is a Heavy Forwarder?
    • Managing the deployment server
    • Installing modular inputs

  • Data formatting
    • Event management
    • Knowledge management

  • Pre/post indexing techniques to clean data before indexing
    • Pre-indexed field extractions
    • Data masking

We're going to focus on only a few pieces of a Splunk system in this chapter:

  • Universal Forwarders
    • Thin clients that...

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