Description
A fast-paced and practical guide to demystifying big data and transforming it into operational intelligence About This Book Wish to get started with Splunk to analyze and visualize machine data? Open this book and step into the world of Splunk. Leverage the exceptional analysis and visualization capabilities to make informed decisions for your business This easy-to-follow, practical book can be utilized by anyone, despite the fact that you have never managed any data before Who This Book Is For This book will be perfect for you in case you are a Software engineer or developer or System administrators or Business analyst who are looking for to correlate machine data with business metrics and provide intuitive real-time and statistical visualizations. Some knowledge or experience of previous versions of Splunk will be helpful but not essential. What You Will Learn Install and configure Splunk Gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields Be comfortable with the Search Processing Language and get to know the best practices in writing search queries Create stunning and powerful dashboards Be proactive by implementing alerts and scheduled reports Use the Splunk SDK and integrate Splunk data into other applications Implement the best practices in the usage of Splunk. In Detail Splunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption in the marketplace. More and more organizations Wish to adopt Splunk to use their data to make informed decisions. This book is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You’ll start with very basics of Splunk – installing Splunk – and then move on to searching machine data with Splunk. You’re going to gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, You’re going to learn how to create more than a few reports, XML forms, and alerts. You