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Mastering Splunk

You're reading from   Mastering Splunk Optimize your machine-generated data effectively by developing advanced analytics with Splunk

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782173830
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James D. Miller James D. Miller
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Preface 1. The Application of Splunk FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Searching 3. Mastering Tables, Charts, and Fields 4. Lookups 5. Progressive Dashboards 6. Indexes and Indexing 7. Evolving your Apps 8. Monitoring and Alerting 9. Transactional Splunk 10. Splunk – Meet the Enterprise A. Quick Start Index

Drilldowns


According to webopedia, in information technology, a drilldown can be defined as follows:

 

"To move from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something."

 
 --webopedia 2014

Splunk offers the ability to initiate a search by clicking on a (row in a) table or (a bar in) a chart. This search will be based on the information that you clicked on in the table or chart. This search that dives deeper into the details of a selection is known as a drilldown and is displayed in a separate window from the original search results.

As an example, we can use one of our earlier Splunk search examples (shown next):

sourcetype=csv 2014 "Current Forecast" "Direct"  "513500" |  rename May as "Month" Actual as "Version" "FY 2012" as Year 650693NLR001 as "Business Unit" 100000 as "FCST" "09997_Eliminations Co 2" as "Account" "451200" as "Activity" | eval RFCST= round(FCST) | Table "Business Unit", Activity, Account, RFCST, FCST

From this search, we can get the following table visualization...

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