Practical Splunk Search Processing Language: A Guide for Mastering SPL Commands for Maximum Efficiency and Outcome

© Karun Subramanian 2020

K. SubramanianPractical Splunk Search Processing Languagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6276-4_1

1. Introducing the Splunk Platform

Karun Subramanian¹  

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Greater Minneapolis, MN, USA

 

Splunk is the world’s leading operational data intelligence platform. It is used by software developers, site reliability engineers, DevOps engineers, data scientists, security professionals, and business analysts. It can parse and index large quantities of unstructured machine data (in many cases, hundreds of terabytes per day). Data is ingested into Splunk using varieties of means, and I find one big advantage being that there is no data source that cannot be ingested into Splunk. The Splunk platform can help to reduce incidents, improve ...