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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

Enhanced alert actions


We already covered custom alert actions in detail in Chapter 9, Advanced Dashboard Customization. In this section, you will learn what new features have been introduced in the Splunk 6.4 release.

Splunk 6.4 has a new feature to choose from the action list of alert actions, that is, it sends log events to the Splunk receiver endpoint. In the following figure, the option marked in the rectangular box is the newly added feature in Splunk 6.4 under alert actions.

This option helps users to redirect the alert log data to Splunk again under the specified sourcetype or index. The alert that used to either trigger e-mails, webhook, or any other defined custom action can also be sent on Splunk for analysis in future. This feature can be helpful for auditing alert scenarios.

Let's understand the use of this Log Event feature in a custom alert. Suppose we have an alert defined to detect fraudulent transactions. Whenever such a transaction is detected, there is a support ticket...

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