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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.
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Managing event segmentation

Splunk breaks the uploaded data into events. Events are the key elements of Splunk search that are further segmented on index time and search time. Basically, segmentation is breaking of events into smaller units classified as major and minor. Segmentation can be explained with the help of the following example.

The complete IP address is a major segment, and a major segment can be further broken down into many minor segments, as shown in the following screenshot:

Managing event segmentation

It is very important to configure event segmentation, as index-time segmentation affects storage size and indexing speed, and search-time segmentation affects the search speed and ability to create searches based on the result of searches on Splunk Web; depending on the need, specific types of segmentation can be configured. Splunk even provides the facility to apply event segmentation on a specific host, source, or source type.

The following are three types of event segmentation that can be configured...

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