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Improving Your Splunk Skills

You're reading from   Improving Your Splunk Skills Leverage the operational intelligence capabilities of Splunk to unlock new hidden business insights

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981747
Length 680 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James D. Miller James D. Miller
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Josh Diakun Josh Diakun
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Paul R. Johnson Paul R. Johnson
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Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. The Splunk Interface 2. Understanding Search FREE CHAPTER 3. Tables, Charts, and Fields 4. Data Models and Pivots 5. Simple XML Dashboards 6. Extending Search 7. Working with Apps 8. Building Advanced Dashboards 9. Summary Indexes and CSV Files 10. Configuring Splunk 11. Play Time – Getting Data In 12. Building an Operational Intelligence Application 13. Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics 14. Speeding Up Intelligence – Data Summarization 15. Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, HTTP Event Collector, REST API, and SDKs 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Saving searches for reuse

As an example, let's build a search query, save it (as a report), and then make an alert out of it. First, let's find errors that affect mary, one of our most important users. This can simply be the query mary error. Looking at some sample log messages that match this query, we see that some of these events probably don't matter (the dates have been removed to shorten the lines):

ERROR LogoutClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=3.2.4.5] 
WARN AuthClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=1.2.3.3] 
ERROR BarCLass Hello world. [user=mary, ip=4.3.2.1] 
WARN LogoutClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=1.2.3.4] 
DEBUG FooClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=3.2.4.5] 
ERROR AuthClass Nothing happened. This is worthless. Don't log this. 
[user=mary, ip=1.2.3.3] 

We can probably skip the DEBUG messages; the LogoutClass messages...

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