Table of Contents
Preface
About This Book i
What’s In This Book? ii
Conventions ii
Acknowledgments iii
PART I: EXPLORING SPLUNK
1 The Story of Splunk
Splunk to the Rescue in the Datacenter 3
Splunk to the Rescue in the Marketing Department 4
Approaching Splunk 5
Splunk: The Company and...
ISBN: 978-0-9825506-7-0; 0-9825506-7-7
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, Table of Contents
Preface
About This Book i
What’s In This Book? ii
Conventionsii
Acknowledgmentsiii
PART I: EXPLORING SPLUNK
1 The Story of Splunk
Splunk to the Rescue in the Datacenter 3
Splunk to the Rescue in the Marketing Department 4
Approaching Splunk 5
Splunk: The Company and the Concept 7
How Splunk Mastered Machine Data in the Datacenter 8
Operational Intelligence 9
Operational Intelligence at Work 11
2 Getting Data In
Machine Data Basics 13
Types of Data Splunk Can Read 15
Splunk Data Sources 15
Downloading, Installing, and Starting Splunk 15
Bringing Data in for Indexing 17
Understanding How Splunk Indexes Data 18
3 Searching with Splunk
The Search Dashboard 23
SPL™: Search Processing Language 27
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