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You're reading from Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook Over 80 recipes for transforming your data into business-critical insights using Splunk

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788835237

Length 541 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Splunk

Concepts

Operational Intelligence

Authors (4):

Yogesh Raheja

Josh Diakun

Derek Mock

Paul R. Johnson

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Play Time – Getting Data In

2. Diving into Data – Search and Report FREE CHAPTER

3. Dashboards and Visualizations - Make Data Shine

4. Building an Operational Intelligence Application

5. Extending Intelligence – Datasets, Modeling and Pivoting

6. Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics

7. Enriching Data – Lookups and Workflows

8. Being Proactive – Creating Alerts

9. Speeding Up Intelligence – Data Summarization

10. Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, HTTP Event Collector, REST API, and SDKs

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Looking up inventory from an external database

In this recipe, you will leverage DB Connect to search an external database's product inventory table. You will then pull this data back into Splunk and turn it into a local lookup that harvests the data once per day. This product inventory table will be used in the next chapter.

DB Connect has a dedicated Splunk manual that can be found at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with Splunk DB Connect installed and the sample data loaded. The Splunk DB Connect installation and the sample data onboarding are covered in Chapter 1, Play Time - Getting Data In. You...

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Authors (4)

Raheja

Yogesh Raheja - - DevOps, Automation and Cloud Coach and Consultant Yogesh Raheja is a certified DevOps and cloud expert with a decade of IT experience. He has expertise in technologies such as OS, source code management, build & release tools, continuous integration/deployment/delivery tools, containers, configuration management tools, monitoring, logging tools, and public/private clouds. He loves to share his technical expertise with audience worldwide at various forums, conferences, webinars, blogs, and LinkedIn. He has written books on IT automation named "Effective DevOps with AWS", "Automation with Puppet 5" and "Automation with Ansible" which has been published by "John & Wiley" and "Packt Publisher". He has also reviewed some of the DevOps books for multiple Publishers.

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Derek Mock

Derek Mock is a software developer and big data architect who specializes in IT operations, information security, and cloud technologies. He has 15 years' experience developing and operating large enterprise-grade deployments and SaaS applications. He is a founding partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. For the past 6 years, he has been leveraging Splunk as the core tool to deliver key operational intelligence. Derek is based in Toronto, Canada, and is a co-founder of the Splunk Toronto User Group.

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Josh Diakun

Josh Diakun is an IT operations and security specialist with a focus on creating data-driven operational processes. He has over 10 years of experience managing and architecting enterprise-grade IT environments. For the past 7 years, he has been architecting, deploying and developing on Splunk as the core platform for organizations to gain security and operational intelligence. Josh is a founding partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. He is also a co-founder of the Splunk Toronto User Group.

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Paul R. Johnson

Paul R Johnson has over 10 years of data intelligence experience in the areas of information security, operations, and compliance. He is a partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. Paul previously worked for a Fortune 10 company, leading IT risk intelligence initiatives and managing a global Splunk deployment. Paul co-founded the Splunk Toronto User Group and lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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