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Advanced Splunk

You're reading from  Advanced Splunk

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785884351
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
Profile icon Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Advanced Splunk
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. What's New in Splunk 6.3? 2. Developing an Application on Splunk 3. On-boarding Data in Splunk 4. Data Analytics 5. Advanced Data Analytics 6. Visualization 7. Advanced Visualization 8. Dashboard Customization 9. Advanced Dashboard Customization 10. Tweaking Splunk 11. Enterprise Integration with Splunk 12. What Next? Splunk 6.4 Index

Splunk health


It is very important to keep track of Splunk's health status. Splunk Enterprise keeps logging various important information which can be helpful in the various stages of Splunk usage. Splunk's log and Splunk Enterprise can be used together to keep track of Splunk's health and various other important measures related to Splunk Enterprise. The Splunk logs can be useful in troubleshooting, system maintenance and tuning, and so on.

The following activities can be tracked by using Splunk's inbuilt logging mechanism:

  • Resource utilization and Splunk license usage

  • Data indexing, searching, analytics-related information, warnings, and errors

  • User activities and application usage information

  • Splunk component performance-related information

Splunk logging ranges from a wide variety of sources like audit log, kvstore log, conf log, crash log, license log, splunkd log, and many more.

splunkd log

Of all the sources for Splunk logs, one of the most important and useful logs is splunkd.log. This log...

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