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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.
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General practices


Of course we can search whatever we want in Splunk, using it in a similar way to the way we use Google, for our log files, but there are some ways to make searching itself more efficient, and faster. There are a few things to understand when making your query practice more efficient, and I will use a few that are commonly overlooked.

This may be more editorial than technical, but it might be helpful here, to quickly describe the three components of a Splunk search before starting to explain core search. This seems to help a lot of people to understand searching as a concept:

  • Core search (what data will be included in the search?):

  • Function or calculation

  • Formatting or presentation

Let's see an example of them:

  1. Perform a Core search:

            Index=test index sourcetype=bookstuff action=purchase 
    
  2. Then add a function or calculation:

            Index=test index sourcetype=bookstuff action=purchase | 
            stats avg(latency) as Delay by host
    
  3. Then tell Splunk how to present...

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