Splunk Essentials - Second Edition - Couverture souple

Sigman, Betsy Page; Delgado, Erickson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178588946X ISBN 13 : 9781785889462

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

A fast-paced and practical guide to demystifying big data and transforming it into operational intelligence

Key Features

• Want to get started with Splunk to analyze and visualize machine data? Open this book and step into the world of Splunk.
• Leverage the exceptional analysis and visualization capabilities to make informed decisions for your business
• This easy-to-follow, practical book can be used by anyone, even if you have never managed any data before

Book Description

Splunk is a search, analysis, and reporting platform for machine data, which has a high adoption on the market. More and more organizations want to adopt Splunk to use their data to make informed decisions.

This book is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. You'll start with very basics of Splunk- installing Splunk-and then move on to searching machine data with Splunk. You will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields. After this, you will learn to create various reports, XML forms, and alerts. You will then continue using the Pivot Model to transform the data models into visualization. You will also explore visualization with D3 in Splunk. Finally you'll be provided with some real-world best practices in using Splunk.

What You Will Learn

• Install and configure Splunk
• Gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields
• Be comfortable with the Search Processing Language and get to know the best practices in writing search queries
• Create stunning and powerful dashboards
• Be proactive by implementing alerts and scheduled reports
• Use the Splunk SDK and integrate Splunk data into other applications
• Implement the best practices in using Splunk.

Who This Book Is For

This book will be perfect for you if you are a Software engineer or developer or System administrators or Business analyst who seek to correlate machine data with business metrics and provide intuitive real-time and statistical visualizations. Some knowledge or experience of previous versions of Splunk will be helpful but not essential.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 17 years and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. Before arriving at Georgetown, she worked at George Mason University, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Decision/Making/Information, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Social Science Data Center (now Roper Center) at the University of Connecticut. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article, articles in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and Decision Line, and a case study in Educause Review Online. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178588946X
• ISBN 13: 9781785889462
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible