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Splunk can ingest different types of data sources and build tables which are similar to relational tables. These are called table dataset or just tables. They provide easy ways to analyse and filter…

A dashboard is used to represent tables or charts which are related to some business meaning. It is done through panels. The panels in a dashboard hold the chart or…

Splunk reports are results saved from a search action which can show statistics and visualizations of events. Reports can be run anytime, and they fetch fresh results each time they…

These are the commands in Splunk which are used to transform the result of a search into such data structures which will be useful in representing the statistics and data…

Splunk already includes the optimization features, analyses and processes your searches for maximum efficiency. This efficiency is mainly achieved through the following two optimization goals − Early Filtering − These optimizations…

The Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) is a language containing many commands, functions, arguments, etc., which are written to get the desired results from the datasets. For example, when you…

When you run a search query, the result is stored as a job in the Splunk server. While this job was created by one specific user, it can be shared…

The Splunk web interface displays timeline which indicates the distribution of events over a range of time. There are preset time intervals from which you can select a specific time…

When Splunk reads the uploaded machine data, it interprets the data and divides it into many fields which represent a single logical fact about the entire data record. For example,…

Splunk has a robust search functionality which enables you to search the entire data set that is ingested. This feature is accessed through the app named as Search & Reporting which can…