Mastering Splunk - Brossura

Miller, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782173838 ISBN 13: 9781782173830

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2014

Riassunto

Optimize your machine-generated data effectively by developing advanced analytics with Splunk

About This Book

• Develop simple applications into robust, feature-rich applications to search, monitor, and analyze machine-generated big data with ease
• Learn about lookups, indexing, dashboards, navigation, advances transaction with examples
• Understand the key features of Splunk by exploring real-world examples and apply the technology in your database

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those Splunk developers who want to learn advanced strategies to deal with big data from an enterprise architectural perspective. You need to have good working knowledge of Splunk.

What You Will Learn

• Get started in the most efficient way, become proficient, and ultimately master Splunk
• Master the techniques to create advanced-level Splunk search strings
• Easily leverage advanced tables, charts, and fields to organize your data
• Understand Splunk lookups and how they relate to enterprise development
• Build practical dashboards with your data
• Acquire master-level understanding of Splunk indexes and indexing
• Build your own Splunk apps and learn why they are important
• Compare Splunk's abilities with other monitoring tools in terms of monitoring data and alerts
• Understand what Splunk transactions are and how to use them to optimize your corporate data

In Detail

Splunk is the definitive technology solution used to manage the ever-growing volumes of machine-generated data. This technology is indispensable for industries involved in big data analysis, online services, education, finance, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications. So, having Splunk experience will be relevant for a long time to come!

This book will first take you through the evolution of Splunk and how it fits into an organization's architectural roadmap. Master advanced search topics and explore in-depth methods to leverage Splunk tables, charts, fields, and other cases. As we advance through the chapters, you will master the best practices of values and lookups, indexes, business effective dashboards, and discover the cornerstones of how to evolve your current Splunk application and its monitoring capabilities. Finally, we round things off with the discussion of transactions from an enterprise perspective.

You'll now be able to apply and integrate advanced techniques of Splunk to optimize your data and meet your strategic organizational demands.

Su questo libro

L'autore

James Miller

James Miller is an IBM certified and accomplished senior project leader, application/system architect, developer, and integrator with over 35 years of extensive applications and system design and development experience. He has held various positions such as National FPM Practice Leader, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, technical leader, technical instructor, and best practice evangelist. His experience includes working on business intelligence, predictive analytics, web architecture and design, business process analysis, GUI design and testing, data and database modeling and systems analysis, and the design and development of client-based, server-based, web-based and mainframe-based applications, systems, and models. His responsibilities included all the aspects of solution design and development, including business process analysis and re-engineering, requirement documentation, estimation and project planning/management, architectural evaluation and optimization, test preparation, and management of resources. His other work experience includes the development of ETL infrastructures, such as data transfer automation between mainframe systems (DB2, Lawson, Great Plains, and more) and the client/server or between SQL servers and web-based applications. It also includes the integration of enterprise applications and data sources. In addition, James has acted as Internet Applications Development Manager, responsible for the design, development, QA, and delivery of multiple websites, including online trading applications, warehouse process control and scheduling systems, and administrative and control applications. He was also responsible for the design, development, and administration of a web-based financial reporting system for a $450 million organization, reporting directly to the CFO and his executive team. In various other leadership roles, such as project and team leader, lead developer, and applications development director, James has managed and directed multiple resources, using a variety of technologies and platforms. He has authored the book IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification Guide, Packt Publishing, and a number of whitepapers on best practices, such as Establishing a Center of Excellence. Also, he continues to post blogs on a number of relevant topics based on personal experiences and industry best practices. He currently holds the following technical certifications: · IBM Certified Developer – Cognos TM1 (perfect score—100 percent in exam) · IBM Certified Business Analyst – Cognos TM1 · IBM Cognos TM1 Master 385 Certification (perfect score—100 percent in exam) · IBM Certified Advanced Solution Expert – Cognos TM1 · IBM Certified TM1 Administrator (perfect score—100 percent in exam) He has technical expertise in IBM Cognos BI and TM1, SPSS, Splunk, dynaSight/arcplan, ASP, DHTML, XML, IIS, MS Visual Basic and VBA, Visual Studio, Perl, WebSuite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase SQL Server, miscellaneous OLAP tools, and more.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782173838
• ISBN 13: 9781782173830
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile