Mastering Splunk

Chapter 10. Splunk – Meet the Enterprise

This chapter will introduce you to the idea of Splunk from an enterprise perspective. Important best practices for development, such as naming, testing, and developing a vision are covered in detail.

The topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:

• General concepts
• Naming for documentation
• Testing
• Retrofitting
• The vision

General concepts

In this book, we started out by defining what Splunk is and what we believe it is becoming. In addition, we took a walkthrough of how to obtain and install Splunk and once installed, we covered searching, tables, charts, and fields as well as covered how to implement lookups, dashboards, indexing, apps, monitoring, and transactions.

At this point, you should be comfortable ...