Product Review
This book teaches you how to work with Splunk, a popular application for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data. This product can index structured and unstructured textual machine-generated data and enables you to perform real-time and historical search, as well as reports and statistical analysis.
You will learn how to download and install Splunk on your Windows or Linux system. You will learn how to collect logs from a local or remote computers, and how to search them using a web-based interface. You will also find out how to create alerts and reports based on the Splunk searches.
The topics covered in this book are:
- what Splunk is and what are some of its common features
- how to install Splunk on Windows and Linux.
- accessing Splunk using a web browser
- explaining indexes and indexing
- collecting Windows logs
- collecting logs from remote machines
- configuring forwarders
- create alerts in Splunk
- how to create reports
