Big Data Analytics Using Splunk: Deriving Operational Intelligence from Social Media, Machine Data, Existing Data Warehouses, and Other Real-Time Streaming Sources

CHAPTER 4

Visualizing the Results

In this chapter we will focus on data visualization using reports and dashboards. You will learn about the default Splunk dashboards and new SPL commands that help to chart the data, and see how we can build reports using the Splunk report builder. We will also look at Splunk Apps to visualize data, get familiar with the default dashboards they provide, and work on creating custom dashboards that help to visualize multiple reports.

Data Visualization

Modern enterprises are looking at newer categories of data such as logs, network, clickstream, and social media as inputs to their mainstream data analysis to make ...