Advanced Splunk

Key Features

• A practical and comprehensive guide to the advanced functions of Splunk,, including the new features of Splunk 6.3
• Develop and manage your own Splunk apps for greater insight from your machine data
• Full coverage of high-level Splunk techniques including advanced searches, manipulations, and visualization

Book Description

Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization - the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how.

Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery.

Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.

What you will learn

• Find out how to develop and manage apps in Splunk
• Work with important search commands to perform data analytics on uploaded data
• Create visualizations in Splunk
• Explore tweaking Splunk
• Integrate Splunk with any pre-existing application to perform data crunching efficiently and in real time
• Make your big data speak with analytics and visualizations using Splunk 6.3
• Use SDK and Enterprise integration with tools such as R and Tableau

Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav is B.E. in Computers & has around 4 and a half years of experience in Software Development, Data Analytics and Information Security, with around 4 years of experience in Splunk application development and administration. He has experience of creating Splunk Applications and add-ons, Managing Splunk Deployments, Machine learning using R & Python, Analytics & Visualization using various tools like Tableau & QlikView.

He is currently working in the Information Security Engineering team handling Splunk Enterprise Security & Cyber Security of the organization. He has worked as Sr. Software Engineer at Larsen & Toubro Technology Services in the Telecom Consumer Electronics & Semicon unit providing data analytics on a wide variety of domains such as mobile devices, telecom infrastructure, embedded devices, Internet of Things (IOT), Machine to Machine (M2M), entertainment devices and network & storage devices.

He has also worked in the areas of information, network, and cyber security in his previous organization. He has an experience in OMA LWM2M for device management and remote monitoring of IOT and M2M devices, and is well versed with big data and the Hadoop ecosystem. He is a passionate ethical hacker, security enthusiast and Linux expert with knowledge of Python, R, .NET, HTML5, CSS, Visual Studio, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8 and C language.

He is avid blogger and in his free time writes about Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security on his blogs. He is a gadget freak and keeps on writing reviews on various gadgets he owns. He is participant and winner of hackathons, technical paper presentations, white papers, etc