Improving Your Splunk Skills: Leverage the operational intelligence capabilities of Splunk to unlock new hidden business insights

Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data and drive your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. Through this Learning Path, you’ll implement new services and utilize them to quickly and efficiently process machine-generated big data.

You’ll begin with an introduction to the new features, improvements, and offerings of Splunk 7. You’ll learn to efficiently use wildcards and modify your search to make it faster. You’ll learn how to enhance your applications by using XML dashboards and configuring and extending Splunk. You’ll also find step-by-step demonstrations that’ll walk you through building an operational intelligence application. As you progress, you’ll explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities.

By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have the skills and confidence to implement various Splunk services in your projects.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

Implementing Splunk 7 – Third Edition by James Miller
Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook – Third Edition by Paul R Johnson, Josh Diakun, et al
What you will learn
Master the new offerings in Splunk: Splunk Cloud and the Machine Learning Toolkit
Create efficient and effective searches
Master the use of Splunk tables, charts, and graph enhancements
Use Splunk data models and pivots with faster data model acceleration
Master all aspects of Splunk XML dashboards with hands-on applications
Apply ML algorithms for forecasting and anomaly detection
Integrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunk’s API
Who this book is for
This Learning Path is for data analysts, business analysts, and IT administrators who want to leverage the Splunk enterprise platform as a valuable operational intelligence tool. Existing Splunk users who want to upgrade and get up and running with Splunk 7.x will also find this book useful. Some knowledge of Splunk services will help you get the most out of this Learning Path.

Table of Contents
The Splunk Interface
Understanding Search
Tables, Charts, and Fields
Data Models and Pivots
Simple XML Dashboards
Extending Search
Working with Apps
Building Advanced Dashboards
Summary Indexes and CSV Files
Configuring Splunk
Play Time – Getting Data In
Building an Operational Intelligence Application
Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics
Speeding Up Intelligence – Data Summarization
Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, HTTP Event Collector, REST API, and SDKs