Andres Sarmiento

Basic search The search assistant provides a nice way to begin looking up for something in particular. At this stage, you can determine a few different search criteria, such as a term in particular or search directly into a specific Index. The search assistant lets you be flexible and presents you with different options. Before […]

Splunk Index Time Process Data ingestion for Splunk is broken down into 3 different phases Input Phase – Data is handled at the source and is usually done by a forwarder Parsing Phase – Handled by the indexer or Heavy Forwarders, the data is broken into events Indexing Phase – The license meter runs as

Addition Splunk Components There are additional components for a Splunk deployment, here is a list Deployment Server Cluster Master License Master Standalone Deployment This deployment is only in 1 server, and all functions needed for this deployment reside on the same server Searching Indexing Parsing Input It is recommended to have 1 test or dev

Splunk – Indexer This is the engine that is in charge of processing machine data, stores the results in indexes as events. This is what allows enabling fast searches and analysis As data is indexed, Splunk creates files organized in sets of directories by age. Splunk – Search Head Splunk has its own Search language,

What is Splunk Splunk is many things to different groups in an organization, but mostly is an engine that looks you to visualize data in a way that could be understood by the business, what are few of the things that Splunk can help with: Application Management Operations Management Security and Compliance Splunk allows you