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Advanced Splunk

You're reading from   Advanced Splunk Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785884351
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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Preface 1. What's New in Splunk 6.3? FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing an Application on Splunk 3. On-boarding Data in Splunk 4. Data Analytics 5. Advanced Data Analytics 6. Visualization 7. Advanced Visualization 8. Dashboard Customization 9. Advanced Dashboard Customization 10. Tweaking Splunk 11. Enterprise Integration with Splunk 12. What Next? Splunk 6.4 Index

Splunk health

It is very important to keep track of Splunk's health status. Splunk Enterprise keeps logging various important information which can be helpful in the various stages of Splunk usage. Splunk's log and Splunk Enterprise can be used together to keep track of Splunk's health and various other important measures related to Splunk Enterprise. The Splunk logs can be useful in troubleshooting, system maintenance and tuning, and so on.

The following activities can be tracked by using Splunk's inbuilt logging mechanism:

  • Resource utilization and Splunk license usage
  • Data indexing, searching, analytics-related information, warnings, and errors
  • User activities and application usage information
  • Splunk component performance-related information

Splunk logging ranges from a wide variety of sources like audit log, kvstore log, conf log, crash log, license log, splunkd log, and many more.

splunkd log

Of all the sources for Splunk logs, one of the most important and useful logs is...

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