This is the code repository for Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.
Gain business data insights from operational intelligence
Splunk is a leading platform and solution for collecting, searching, and extracting value from ever increasing amounts of big data - and big data is eating the world! This book covers all the crucial Splunk topics and gives you the information and examples to get the immediate job done. You will find enough insights to support further research and use Splunk to suit any business environment or situation.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Design and implement a complex Splunk Enterprise solution
- Configure your Splunk environment to get machine data in and indexed
- Build searches to get and format data for analysis and visualization
- Build reports, dashboards, and alerts to deliver critical insights
- Create knowledge objects to enhance the value of your data
- Install Splunk apps to provide focused views into key technologies
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and manage your Splunk environment
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
index=<index> <filter> <"text string to match">
| command1 <arguments>
| command2 <arguments>
| visualization commands & arguments
Following is what you need for this book: This book is intended for experienced IT personnel who are just getting started working with Splunk and want to quickly become proficient with its usage. Data analysts who need to leverage Splunk to extract critical business insights from application logs and other machine data sources will also benefit from this book.
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
James H Baxter is the owner/CEO of Machine Data Insights, Inc., a certified Splunk architect, and a developer and machine learning practitioner with over 35 years of experience in various engineering and analysis disciplines, including radio/satellite; networks; capacity and performance modelling; speech technology; packet-level analysis; programming; and Splunk architecture, administration, and machine learning solutions for companies including MCI, IBM, BP, Disney, and AMEX. James is also a private pilot and holds an Extra class amateur radio and FCC Radiotelephone license.
You can reach him at LinkedIn at James H. Baxter.
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