Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence - Softcover

Bumgarner, Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849693285 ISBN 13: 9781849693288

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

A step-by-step practical implementation tutorial that equips you with high-level knowledge of configuring, deploying, extending, and integrating Splunk to bring machine-generated operational intelligence (?)to your advantage. The book targets professionals and organizations who want to implement or have already implemented Splunk for log analysis and indexing. Analysts and IT staff for end-to-end investigation, performance monitoring, and so on will also learn from the practical examples. It would even help managers to build reports and summarize the health, performance, and activity of their IT infrastructure and business. You will also find it helpful as a technical administrator, consultant, or end user. This book aims to be useful to Splunk users of all levels, from complete newbie to seasoned user. The book assumes that you have access to a copy of Splunk, ideally not in production. Many examples also assume your user has admin rights.

About this title

About the Author

Vincent Bumgarner

Vincent Bumgarner has been designing software for nearly 20 years, working in many languages on nearly as many platforms. He started using Splunk in 2007 and has enjoyed watching the product evolve over the years.

While working for Splunk, he helped many companies, training dozens of users to drive, extend, and administer this extremely flexible product. At least one person at every company he worked with asked for a book on Splunk, and he hopes his effort helps fill their shelves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849693285
• ISBN 13: 9781849693288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428