Geography and location

Here, you will learn how we can add geographical information in the current dataset by referencing to the IP address, or if the data already has location information, then how that data can be made visualization ready on the world map.

The iplocation command

The Splunk iplocation command is a powerful command that extracts location information such as city, country, continent, latitude, longitude, region, zip code, time zone, and so on from the IP address. This command can be used to extract relevant geographic and location information, and those extracted fields can be used to filter and, create statistical analytics based on location information. Let's suppose we have data with IP addresses of users making transactions on the website. Using the iplocation command, we can find the exact location and analytics, such as the highest number of transactions done from which state or continent, or in a location an e-commerce site is more popular. Such kind of location-based...