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Advanced Splunk

Advanced Splunk

By : Tulsiram Yadav
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Advanced Splunk

Advanced Splunk

3.8 (4)
By: Tulsiram Yadav

Overview of this book

Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization – the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how. Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery. Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Search optimizations

We have already learned data acceleration and the bucket life cycle in the preceding section. Let us now see how we can make the best use of search queries for better and more efficient results. Splunk search queries can be optimized depending upon the requirements and conditions. Generally, the search queries which need to be optimized are those which are used most frequently. Let us learn a few tricks to optimize the search for faster results.

Time range

We have already learned about Splunk buckets, which organize events based on time. The shorter the time span, the less buckets will be accessed to get the information of the search result. It has always been a common practice to use All time in the time range picker for any search, irrespective of whether the result is required for all of the duration or some limited duration.

So one of the best search optimization methods is to use the time range picker to specify the time domain on which the search should run to get...

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