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Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered

You're reading from   Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered Machine data made accessible

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787288256
Length 962 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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Derek Mock Derek Mock
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Erickson Delgado Erickson Delgado
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Paul R. Johnson Paul R. Johnson
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Chapter 5. Extending Intelligence – Data Models and Pivoting

In this chapter, we will introduce the Splunk data model and pivoting functionality. We will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating a data model for web access logs
  • Creating a data model for application logs
  • Accelerating data models
  • Pivoting total sales transactions
  • Pivoting purchases by geographical location
  • Pivoting slowest responding web pages
  • Pivot charting top error codes

Introduction

In many of the previous chapters, we leveraged Splunk's SPL quite a bit in order to build searches, reports, and dashboards. In this chapter, we will learn how to leverage Splunk's data model and Pivot functionality, and demonstrate how these can be leveraged by less technical users to easily build reports, charts, and dashboards.

The first set of recipes in this chapter involves building Splunk data models. Data models allow Splunk datasets to be mapped, together with associated knowledge, into a hierarchical structure that...

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