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

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. Splunk Essentials, Second Edition is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You'll start with the very basics of Splunk, including how to install 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 and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot model to transform the data models into visualizations. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you'll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.
Who this book is written for This book will be perfect for you if you are a software engineer or developer, a system administrator, or a business analyst who seeks to correlate machine data with business metrics and provide intuitive real-time and statistical visualizations. Some knowledge or previous experience with Splunk will be helpful, but is not essential. What you will learn from this book 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.