Key FeaturesGet maximum use out of your data with Splunks exceptional analysis and visualization capabilitiesAnalyze and understand your operational data skillfully using this end-to-end courseFull coverage of high-level Splunk techniques such as advanced searches, manipulations, and visualizationBook DescriptionSplunk is an extremely powerful tool for searching, exploring, and visualizing data of all types. Splunk is becoming increasingly popular, as more and more businesses, both large and small, discover its ease and usefulness. Analysts, managers, students, and others can quickly learn how to use the data from their systems, networks, web traffic, and social media to make attractive and informative reports. This course will teach everything right from installing and configuring Splunk.The first module is for anyone who wants to manage data with Splunk. Youll start with very basics of Splunk— installing Splunk— before then moving on to searching machine data with Splunk. You will gather data from different sources, isolate them by indexes, classify them into source types, and tag them with the essential fields.With more than 70 recipes on hand in the second module that demonstrate all of Splunks features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but youll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization.Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems in the third module. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery.This learning path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer into one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:Splunk Essentials - Second EditionSplunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Second EditionAdvanced SplunkWhat you will learnInstall and configure the latest version of Splunk.Use Splunk to gather, analyze, and report dataCreate Dashboards and Visualizations that make data meaningfulModel and accelerate data and perform pivot-based reportingIntegrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunks APIsDevelop and Manage apps in SplunkIntegrate Splunk with R and Tableau using SDKsAbout the AuthorBetsy 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 17 years and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. Before arriving at Georgetown, she worked at George Mason University, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Decision/Making/Information, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Social Science Data Center (now Roper Center) at the University of Connecticut.Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article, articles in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and Decision Line, and a case study in Educause Review Online. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data.Erickson Delgado Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered the use of the application in his current work. In the earlier parts of his career, he worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open source infrastructure. He then worked in the cruise industry as a shipboard IT manager, and he loved it. From there, he was recruited to work at the companys headquarters as a software engineer.He has developed applications with Python and Node.js. He is interested in Go and is rediscovering programming with C/C++. He is crazy about visualization platforms and tools. In recent years, he has engaged himself with employing DevOps in his work.Since Ericksons routine revolves around technical practices, he blows off steam by saltwater fishing, mountain biking, crafting robots, and touring the country. He lives in Orlando.Josh Diakun is an IT operations and security specialist with a focus on creating data-driven operational processes. He has over 10 years of experience managing and architecting enterprise-grade IT environments. For the past 7 years, he has been architecting, deploying and developing on Splunk as the core platform for organizations to gain security and operational intelligence. Josh is a founding partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. He is also a co-founder of the Splunk Toronto User Group.Paul R Johnson has over 10 years of data intelligence experience in the areas of information security, operations, and compliance. He is a partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. Paul previously worked for a Fortune 10 company, leading IT risk intelligence initiatives and managing a global Splunk deployment. Paul co-founded the Splunk Toronto User Group and lives and works in Toronto, Canada.Derek Mock is a software developer and big data architect who specializes in IT operations, information security, and cloud technologies. He has 15 years experience developing and operating large enterprise-grade deployments and SaaS applications. He is a founding partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. For the past 6 years, he has been leveraging Splunk as the core tool to deliver key operational intelligence. Derek is based in Toronto, Canada, and is a co-founder of the Splunk Toronto User Group.Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav is a BE in computers and has around four and a half years of experience in software development, data analytics, and information security, and around four years of experience in Splunk application development and administration. He has experience of creating Splunk applications and add-ons, managing Splunk deployments, machine learning using R and Python, and analytics and visualization using various tools, such as Tableau and QlikView.He is currently working with the information security operations team, handling the Splunk Enterprise security and cyber security of the organization. He has worked as a senior software engineer at Larsen & Toubro Technology Services in the telecom consumer electronics and semicon unit providing data analytics on a wide variety of domains, such as mobile devices, telecom infrastructure, embedded devices, Internet of Things (IOT), Machine to Machine (M2M), entertainment devices, and network and storage devices.He has also worked in the area of information, network, and cyber security in his previous organization. He has experience in OMA LWM2M for device management and remote monitoring of IOT and M2M devices and is well versed in big data and the Hadoop ecosystem. He is a passionate ethical hacker, security enthusiast, and Linux expert and has knowledge of Python, R, .NET, HTML5, CSS, and the C language.He is an avid blogger and writes about ethical hacking and cyber security on his blogs in his free time. He is a gadget freak and keeps on writing reviews on various gadgets he owns. He has participated in and has been a winner of hackathons, technical paper presentations, white papers, and so on.Table of ContentsSplunk in ActionBringing in DataSearch Processing LanguageData Models and PivotData Optimization, Reports, Alerts, and Accelerating SearchesPanes of GlassSplunk SDK for JavaScript and D3.jsHTTP Event CollectorBest Practices and Advanced QueriesPlay Time – Getting Data InDiving into Data – Search and ReportDashboards and Visualizations – Making Data ShineBuilding an Operational Intelligence ApplicationExtending Intelligence – Data Models and PivotingDiving Deeper – Advanced SearchingEnriching Data – Lookups and WorkflowsBeing Proactive – Creating AlertsSpeeding Up Intelligence – Data SummarizationAbove and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, REST API, HTTP Event Collector, and SDKsWhats New in Splunk 6.3?Developing an Application on SplunkOn-boarding Data in SplunkData AnalyticsAdvanced Data AnalyticsVisualizationAdvanced VisualizationDashboard CustomizationAdvanced Dashboard CustomizationTweaking SplunkEnterprise Integration with SplunkWhat Next? Splunk 6.4Biblography