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Splunk Essentials - Second Edition

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Published in Sep 2016

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ISBN-13 9781785889462

Pages 236 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Authors (3):

Betsy Page Sigman

Somesh Soni

Erickson Delgado

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Splunk Essentials Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Splunk in Action

2. Bringing in Data

3. Search Processing Language

4. Data Models and Pivot

5. Data Optimization, Reports, Alerts, and Accelerating Searches

6. Panes of Glass

7. Splunk SDK for JavaScript and D3.js

8. HTTP Event Collector

9. Best Practices and Advanced Queries

Filtering search results

Splunk is currently one of the best enterprise search engines, that is, a search engine that can serve the needs of any size organization currently on the market. Using a search command, you can filter your results using key phrases just the way you would with a Google search. Here are some examples for you to try out:

SPL> index=main /booking/confirmation

The preceding filters search results and only shows those with /booking/confirmation in the _raw data.

You may also add further filters by adding another phrase. It is very important to note, however, that by default, Splunk will assume that your phrases are logically chained based on an AND operator. For example:

SPL> index=main /booking 200

The preceding line of code is equivalent to the following:

SPL> index=main /booking AND 200

Similarly, you can use the OR operator to find data based on multiple filters. The following command will return all events with /booking or /destinations in the text. It is...

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Authors (3)

Betsy Page Sigman

Betsy Page Sigman is a distinguished professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses in statistics, project management, databases, and electronic commerce for the last 16 years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. She has also worked at George Mason University in the past. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.

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Somesh Soni

Somesh Soni is a Splunk Consultant with over 11 years of IT experience. He has bachelor degree in Computer Science (Hons.) and has been a interested in exploring and learning new technologies throughout his whole life. He has extensive experience in Consulting, Architecture, Administration and Development in Splunk. He's proficient in various programming languages and tools including C#.NET/VB.NET, SSIS, and SQL Server etc. Somesh is currently working as a Splunk Master with Randstad Technologies. His activities are focused on Consulting, Implementation, Admin, Architecture and support related activities for Splunk. He started his career with the one of the Top 3 Indian IT giant He has executed projects for major fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Capital Group etc. He has performed in various capacities of Technical Architect, Technical Lead, Onsite Coordinator, Technology Analyst etc. Somesh has been a great contributor in the Splunk Community work and has consistently been on the top of the list. He is a member of Splunk Trust 2015-16 and overall one of the topmost contributor to Splunk Answers community. Acknowledgement: I would like to thank my family and colleagues who have always encouraged and supported me to follow my dreams, my friends who put up with all my crazy antics while I went on a Splunk exploratory Journey and listened with patience on all the tips and tricks of Splunk which I shared with them. Last but not the least I would like to express my gratitude to the entire team of Packt Publishing Ltd for giving me this opportunity.

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Erickson Delgado

Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered the use of the application in his current work. In the earlier parts of his career, he worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open source infrastructure. He then worked in the cruise industry as a shipboard IT manager, and he loved it. From there, he was recruited to work at the company's headquarters as a software engineer.

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