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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

Developing a Splunk add-on

It is very important to first identify the problem that the Splunk add-on will solve. On identifying the problem, the following procedure is to be followed to create an add-on.

Building an add-on

It is very important to define the need and problems that the add-on will be solving before we build it.

If the add-on will be used to add data to Splunk, then how do we get that data into Splunk?

The various methods of data input are shown in the following screenshot. An add-on can be configured to use any one of them depending on the requirement and use case.

Building an add-on

You may wonder, what will the add-on do next? What configuration files need to be configured in the add-on for the given requirement? Add-ons can be configured for data acquisitions, data transformation, normalization, and enrichment. Add-ons can also be configured to have one or more than one features depending on the need:

Building an add-on

Installing a technology add-on

The steps to install technology add-ons via the Web and manually...

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