Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

A fast-paced and practical guide to demystifying big data and transforming it into operational intelligence

About This Book

• Want 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 used by anyone, even if you have never managed any data before

Who This Book Is For

This book will be perfect for you if you are a Software engineer or developer or System administrators or Business analyst who seek 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 using Splunk.

In Detail

Splunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption on the market. More and more organizations want 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 will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, you will learn to create various reports, XML forms, and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot Model to transform the data models into visualization. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you ll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.

Style and approach

This fast-paced, example-rich guide will help you analyze and visualize machine data with Splunk through simple, practical instructions.

一本快節奏且實用的指南，將大數據解密並轉化為運營智能。

關於本書：
- 想要開始使用Splunk來分析和可視化機器數據嗎？打開這本書，進入Splunk的世界。
- 利用卓越的分析和可視化能力，為您的業務做出明智的決策。
- 這本易於理解的實用書籍適用於任何人，即使您以前從未管理過任何數據。

本書適合對象：
- 如果您是軟件工程師、開發人員、系統管理員或業務分析師，並希望將機器數據與業務指標相關聯並提供直觀的實時和統計可視化，那麼本書將非常適合您。對Splunk的先前版本有一些知識或經驗將有所幫助，但不是必需的。

您將學到什麼：
- 安裝和配置Splunk。
- 從不同來源收集數據，通過索引將其隔離，將其分類為源類型，並使用必要的字段進行標記。
- 熟悉搜索處理語言(Search Processing Language)，並了解撰寫搜索查詢的最佳實踐。
- 創建令人驚艷且功能強大的儀表板。
- 通過實施警報和定期報告來主動應對。
- 使用Splunk SDK將Splunk數據集成到其他應用程序中。
- 實施使用Splunk的最佳實踐。

詳細內容：
Splunk是一個用於機器數據的搜索、分析和報告平台，在市場上得到了廣泛的應用。越來越多的組織希望採用Splunk來利用他們的數據做出明智的決策。

本書適用於任何想要使用Splunk管理數據的人。您將從Splunk的基礎開始，安裝Splunk，然後進一步使用Splunk搜索機器數據。您將從不同來源收集數據，通過索引將其隔離，將其分類為源類型，並使用必要的字段進行標記。之後，您將學習創建各種報告、XML表單和警報。然後，您將繼續使用Pivot模型將數據模型轉換為可視化。您還將探索在Splunk中使用D3進行可視化。最後，我們將提供一些在使用Splunk時的實際最佳實踐。

風格和方法：
這本快節奏、範例豐富的指南將通過簡單、實用的指示幫助您分析和可視化Splunk的機器數據。