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Mastering Splunk
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Mastering Splunk

by James D. Miller
December 2014
Beginner to intermediate
344 pages
7h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Extended functionalities

When using Splunk Web (again, I recommend this), you can edit all the alert properties in a single place.

Navigate to Settings | Searches, reports, and alerts; you can locate the search/alert and click on the name. From here, Splunk shows you and allows you to edit all the information for this alert. In addition, there are a few extended functionalities, as follows:

  • Acceleration
  • An expiration for the alert
  • Summary indexing

Splunk acceleration

Splunk acceleration is a technique that Splunk uses to speed up searches which take a long time to complete, because they have to cover a large amount of data. You can enable acceleration for the search that your alert is based on by checking the Accelerate this search checkbox and selecting ...

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ISBN: 9781782173830