Book description
Over 70 practical recipes to gain operational data intelligence with Splunk Enterprise
In Detail
This book contains over 70 practical, task-oriented recipes to build up your knowledge of Splunk's many features which you can apply to real-world operational intelligence scenarios.
Right from the first chapter, you will follow recipes that progressively build upon one another. The recipes provided will demonstrate methods to expedite delivery of intelligence reports and empower you to present data in a meaningful way through dashboards and by applying visualizations available in Splunk Enterprise. You will also delve deeply into your data with transactions, subsearching, concurrency, and more advanced search commands.
What You Will Learn
- Search, report on, and visualize operational intelligence data
- Enrich operational data with lookups and workflows
- Model and accelerate data and perform pivot-based reporting
- Build real-time, scripted, and other intelligence-driven alerts
- Summarize data for longer term trending, reporting, and analysis
- Build a fully featured Splunk operational intelligence application
- Integrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunk's API
Table of contents
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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Play Time – Getting Data In
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2. Diving into Data – Search and Report
- Introduction
- Making raw event data readable
- Finding the most accessed web pages
- Finding the most used web browsers
- Identifying the top-referring websites
- Charting web page response codes
- Displaying web page response time statistics
- Listing the top viewed products
- Charting the application's functional performance
- Charting the application's memory usage
- Counting the total number of database connections
- Summary
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3. Dashboards and Visualizations – Make Data Shine
- Introduction
- Creating an Operational Intelligence dashboard
- Using a pie chart to show the most accessed web pages
- Displaying the unique number of visitors
- Using a gauge to display the number of errors
- Charting the number of method requests by type and host
- Creating a timechart of method requests, views, and response times
- Using a scatter chart to identify discrete requests by size and response time
- Creating an area chart of the application's functional statistics
- Using a bar chart to show the average amount spent by category
- Creating a line chart of item views and purchases over time
- Summary
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4. Building an Operational Intelligence Application
- Introduction
- Creating an Operational Intelligence application
- Adding dashboards and reports
- Organizing the dashboards more efficiently
- Dynamically drilling down on activity reports
- Creating a form to search web activities
- Linking web page activity reports to the form
- Displaying a geographical map of visitors
- Scheduling the PDF delivery of a dashboard
- Summary
- 5. Extending Intelligence – Data Models and Pivoting
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6. Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching
- Introduction
- Calculating the average session time on a website
- Calculating the average execution time for multi-tier web requests
- Displaying the maximum concurrent checkouts
- Analyzing the relationship of web requests
- Predicting website-traffic volumes
- Finding abnormally sized web requests
- Identifying potential session spoofing
- Summary
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7. Enriching Data – Lookups and Workflows
- Introduction
- Looking up product code descriptions
- Flagging suspicious IP addresses
- Creating a session state table
- Adding hostnames to IP addresses
- Searching ARIN for a given IP address
- Triggering a Google search for a given error
- Creating a ticket for application errors
- Looking up inventory from an external database
- Summary
- 8. Being Proactive – Creating Alerts
- 9. Speed Up Intelligence – Data Summarization
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10. Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, REST API, and SDKs
- Introduction
- Customizing the application's navigation
- Adding a force-directed graph of web hits
- Adding a calendar heatmap of product purchases
- Remotely querying Splunk's REST API for unique page views
- Creating a Python application to return unique IP addresses
- Creating a custom search command to format product names
- Summary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849697842
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