May 2013
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
11h 3m
English
CHAPTER 9
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Getting the Flight Data into Splunk
This chapter discusses in detail the data used by the Airline On-Time Performance project. It introduces two ways to get structured data into Splunk: Using comma-separated value CSV files and directly from a relational database. This chapter also covers various ways to handle complex timestamps based on data spread over multiple columns.
Working with CSV Files
CSV files are probably the most popular and easiest way to import and export data to and from a relational database or other systems and applications. In this section we are going to use a public data set that contains information about all ...