Chapter 8. Big Data Operational Intelligence with Splunk

Once there is an understanding of the challenges of applying basic analytics and visualization techniques to big data, the value of the data can be realized. This chapter offers working examples demonstrating solutions for valuing big data by gaining operational intelligence (using Splunk).

The chapter is organized into the following main sections:

• About Splunk

• Splunk and big data

• Splunk visualization - real-time log analysis

• Splunk visualization - deeper into the logs