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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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Anatomy of an alert


There are some very fundamental parts of an alert that are generic to any alerting system. They are translatable to Nagios, SCOM, Icinga, or take your pick. In Splunk, however, there are some unique components of an alert that give us the ability to enhance what the alert itself does, and mostly it has to do with SPL(Splunk Processing Language). Once we have gotten the results we want, there are some fun things we can do with an alert.

Search query results

This is the result set of any search that you determine viable for an alert. It is often easiest to use a stats command to set an alert, as it gives an integer that can easily be filtered by a where statement. The amount of history searched is also very important in the setup of an alert.

Alert naming

The naming convention you choose often doesn't sound very important at all. I can tell you that, usually, it is not, right up until you start collecting hundreds, if not thousands, of alerts, which does happen. Creating the...

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