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Implementing Splunk (Update)

A comprehensive guide to help you transform Big Data into valuable business insights with Splunk 6.2

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|Oct 2025
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    Book Description

    If you are a data analyst with basic knowledge of Big Data analysis but no knowledge of Splunk, then this book will help you get started with Splunk. The book assumes that you have access to a copy of Splunk, ideally not in production, and many examples also assume you have administrator rights.

    What you will learn

    • Enrich your data with lookups and commands
    • Transform your data into useful and beautiful reports
    • Build professionallooking, informative dashboards
    • Get to know what Splunk data models and pivots are
    • Learn about pivot editor, pivot elements, filters, Sparklines, and more
    • Manage configurations from one to thousands of instances
    • Extend Splunk with scripts and advanced configuration
    • Create fields from your unstructured data
    • Write searches that are fast and lean

    Who this book is for

    If you are a data analyst with basic knowledge of Big Data analysis but no knowledge of Splunk, then this book will help you get started with Splunk. The book assumes that you have access to a copy of Splunk, ideally not in production, and many examples also assume you have administrator rights.

    Table of Contents

    1. The Splunk Interface
    2. Understanding Search
    3. Tables Charts and Fields
    4. Data Models and Pivots
    5. Simple XML Dashboards
    6. Advanced Search Examples
    7. Extending Search
    8. Working With Apps
    9. Building Advanced Dashboards
    10. Summary Indexes and CSV Files
    11. Configuring Splunk
    12. Advanced Deployments
    13. Extending Splunk
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-930-6
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 506
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