Splunk with Tableau for visualization
In the preceding section, we saw how to use R along with Splunk to generate useful insight from the data using R libraries from Splunk itself. In this section, we will see how to use the processing power of Splunk and the visualization power of Tableau for interactive visualization.
Tableau is a very advanced, interactive, business-intelligent software. It helps in deriving instantaneous insights by data transformation into interactive visualizations. It has an easy-to-use drag and drop feature that helps in making highly useful dashboards in minutes. Splunk already has a pivot feature and ample visualization, but Tableau can be used to answer many unknown questions from the data.
With Splunk being a big data tool and Tableau being an excellent interactive visualization tool, their integration can be very useful to derive insight and take informed business decisions on time.
The setup
There are various variants of Tableau, and a suitable version of Tableau...
