Splunk 7 Essentials

Splunk has evolved from a normal log monitoring tool to a de facto tool used in almost every enterprise, spanning from IT to security and even marketing.

This course will get you off to a steady start by helping you understand how to install Splunk and set up a sample machine data generator, called Eventgen. By learning how to create various reports, dashboards, and alerts, you’ll then be able to analyze and visualize your data with a completely new perspective. You’ll later explore how to model data for business users using Splunk's Pivot functionality. As you cover more chapters, you’ll get up to speed with testing Splunk's powerful HTTP Event Collector and send data to Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. After covering core Splunk functionality, you'll gain insights into some real-world best practices for using this technology. Throughout this fully updated edition, you’ll also come across ’Tips from the Fez’, which are additional comments and best practice recommendations from a member of the SplunkTrust Community.

By the end of this course, you’ll know exactly how to use the many features of Splunk to your advantage and transform your machine data into resourceful insights that positively affect business decisions.

About the Author

• J-P Contreras, a Splunk-certified administrator and sales engineer, has delivered value-oriented data analytics and performance planning solutions for more than 20 years. He has built award-winning consulting teams to help companies turn data into analytical insights. He helps companies implement Splunk. He received his MBA in e-commerce from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, Chicago, in 2001. He trains in DePaul's Continuing Education Program and is a member of DePaul's Driehaus School of Business Advisory Board.

  
  

• Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect living in Orlando who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered its use into his current work. He has worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open-source infrastructure. He has developed applications with Python and Node.js, is interested in Go, and loves recovering programming with C/C++. In recent years, he engaged himself in employing DevOps in his work. He blows off steam by saltwater fishing, mountain biking, crafting robots, and touring the country.

  
  

• 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 16 years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. She has also worked at George Mason University in the past. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data

  
  

• Adam Frisbee is a 15 year IT veteran and holds an MS in Information Systems from the University of Utah, where he also teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Information Systems. His expertise is in cloud computing, VMware, Splunk, data warehousing, systems analysis and design, networking and servers, and university-level teaching.