Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk
About This Book
- A practical and comprehensive guide to the advanced functions of Splunk,, including the new features of Splunk 6.3
- Develop and manage your own Splunk apps for greater insight from your machine data
- Full coverage of high-level Splunk techniques including advanced searches, manipulations, and visualization
Who This Book Is For
This book is for Splunk developers looking to learn advanced strategies to deal with big data from an enterprise architectural perspective. It is expected that readers have a basic understanding and knowledge of using Splunk Enterprise.
What You Will Learn
- Find out how to develop and manage apps in Splunk
- Work with important search commands to perform data analytics on uploaded data
- Create visualizations in Splunk
- Explore tweaking Splunk
- Integrate Splunk with any pre-existing application to perform data crunching efficiently and in real time
- Make your big data speak with analytics and visualizations using Splunk
- Use SDK and Enterprise integration with tools such as R and Tableau
In Detail
Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization – the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how.
Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery.
Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.
Style and approach
This book follows a step by step approach. Every new concept is built on top of its previous chapter, and it is full of examples and practical scenarios to help the reader experiment as they read.
Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav is a BE in computers and has around four and a half years of experience in software development, data analytics, and information security, and around four years of experience in Splunk application development and administration. He has experience of creating Splunk applications and add-ons, managing Splunk deployments, machine learning using R and Python, and analytics and visualization using various tools, such as Tableau and QlikView. He is currently working with the information security operations team, handling the Splunk Enterprise security and cyber security of the organization. He has worked as a senior software engineer at Larsen & Toubro Technology Services in the telecom consumer electronics and semicon unit providing data analytics on a wide variety of domains, such as mobile devices, telecom infrastructure, embedded devices, Internet of Things (IOT), Machine to Machine (M2M), entertainment devices, and network and storage devices. He has also worked in the area of information, network, and cyber security in his previous organization. He has experience in OMA LWM2M for device management and remote monitoring of IOT and M2M devices and is well versed in big data and the Hadoop ecosystem. He is a passionate ethical hacker, security enthusiast, and Linux expert and has knowledge of Python, R, .NET, HTML5, CSS, and the C language. He is an avid blogger and writes about ethical hacking and cyber security on his blogs in his free time. He is a gadget freak and keeps on writing reviews on various gadgets he owns. He has participated in and has been a winner of hackathons, technical paper presentations, white papers, and so on.
