Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence: Learn to Transform Your Machine Data into Valuable It and Business Insights With This Comprehensive and Practical Tutorial

A step-by-step practical implementation tutorial that equips you with high-level knowledge of configuring, deploying, extending, and integrating Splunk to bring machine-generated operational intelligence (?)to your advantage. The book targets professionals and organizations who want to implement or have already implemented Splunk for log analysis and indexing. Analysts and IT staff for end-to-end investigation, performance monitoring, and so on will also learn from the practical examples. It would even help managers to build reports and summarize the health, performance, and activity of their IT infrastructure and business. You will also find it helpful as a technical administrator, consultant, or end user. This book aims to be useful to Splunk users of all levels, from complete newbie to seasoned user. The book assumes that you have access to a copy of Splunk, ideally not in production. Many examples also assume your user has admin rights.