Implementing Splunk : a comprehensive guide to help you transform big data into valuable business insights with Splunk 6.2 /: a comprehensive guide to help you transform big data into valuable business insights with Splunk 6.2. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Comprehensive guide to help you transform big data into valuable business insights with Splunk 6.2
• Further Information: Note: Vincent Bumgarner, James D. Miller.
• Authors: Bumgarner, Vincent; (Software consultant), Miller, James D
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Splunk Interface; Logging into Splunk; The home app; The top bar; The search & reporting app; Data generator; The summary view; Search; Actions; Timeline; The field picker; Fields; Search results; Options; The events viewer; Using the time picker; Using the field picker; The settings section; Summary; Chapter 2: Understanding Search; Using search terms effectively; Boolean and grouping operators; Clicking to modify your search; Event segmentation; Field widgets; Time. Using fields to searchUsing the field picker; Using wildcards efficiently; Supplementing wildcards in fields; All about time; How Splunk parses time; How Splunk stores time; How Splunk displays time; How time zones are determined and why it matters; Different ways to search against time; Presets; Relative; Real-time; Date range; Date and time range; Advanced; Specifying time in-line in your search; _indextime versus _time; Making searches faster; Sharing results with others; The URL; Save as report; Save as dashboard panel; Save as alert; Save as event type; Search job settings. Saving searches for reuseCreating alerts from searches; Enable actions; Action options; Sharing; Summary; Chapter 3: Tables, Charts, and Fields; About the pipe symbol; Using top to show common field values; Controlling the output of top; Using stats to aggregate values; Using chart to turn data; Using timechart to show values over time; The timechart options; Working with fields; A regular expression primer; Commands that create fields; eval; rex; Extracting loglevel; Using the extract fields interface; Using rex to prototype a field; Using the admin interface to build a field. Indexed fields versus extracted fieldsSummary; Chapter 4: Data Models and Pivots; What is a data model?; What does a data model search?; Data model objects; Object constraining; Attributes; Creating a data model; Filling in the new data model dialog; Editing attributes; Lookup attributes; Children; What is a pivot?; The pivot editor; Working with pivot elements; Filtering your pivots; Split (row or column); Column values; Pivot table formatting; A quick example; Sparklines; Summary; Chapter 5: Simple XML Dashboards; The purpose of dashboards; Using wizards to build dashboards. Adding another panelA cool trick; Converting the panel to a report; More options; Back to the dashboard; Add input; Edit source; Editing XML directly; UI examples app; Building forms; Creating a form from a dashboard; Driving multiple panels from one form; Post-processing search results; Post-processing limitations; Features replaced; Autorun dashboard; Scheduling the generation of dashboards; Summary; Chapter 6: Advanced Search Examples; Using subsearches to find loosely related events; Subsearch; Subsearch caveats; Nested subsearches; Using transaction.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.7565; COMPUTERS -- Data Modeling & Design; Automatic data collection systems; Big data; Data mining; COMPUTERS / Databases / Data Mining; COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- Systems Analysis & Design; Big data; Data mining; Automatic data collection systems; Computer science; Database management; Electronic data processing; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784399306; 1784399302; 1784391603; 9781784391607
• Related ISBNs: 9781784391607
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed August 13, 2015).
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