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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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Chapter 8. Being Proactive – Creating Alerts

In this chapter, we will learn about the alerting capabilities within Splunk. You will learn about:

  • Alerting on abnormal web page response times
  • Alerting on errors during checkout in real time
  • Alerting on abnormal user behavior
  • Alerting on failure and triggering a scripted response
  • Alerting when predicted sales exceed inventory

Introduction

Throughout the previous chapters in this book, you created a great deal of Splunk searches, including historic searches that look back over a period of time and real-time searches. In this chapter, you will learn about alerting—arguably, one of Splunk's most powerful features.

A key part of gaining complete operational intelligence is the ability to be proactive rather than reactive. Periodic, ad hoc searching of the data for certain conditions might provide some operational insight, but a better approach would be to continually monitor the data and know immediately when certain conditions...

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