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Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition

You're reading from   Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition Effective operational intelligence to transform machine-generated data into valuable business insight

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836289
Length 576 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. The Splunk Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Search 3. Tables, Charts, and Fields 4. Data Models and Pivots 5. Simple XML Dashboards 6. Advanced Search Examples 7. Extending Search 8. Working with Apps 9. Building Advanced Dashboards 10. Summary Indexes and CSV Files 11. Configuring Splunk 12. Advanced Deployments 13. Extending Splunk 14. Machine Learning Toolkit Index

Saving searches for reuse


As an example, let's build a search query, save it (as a report), and then make an alert out of it. First, let's find errors that affect mary, one of our most important users. This can simply be the query mary error. Looking at some sample log messages that match this query, we see that some of these events probably don't matter (the dates have been removed to shorten the lines):

ERROR LogoutClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=3.2.4.5] 
WARN AuthClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=1.2.3.3] 
ERROR BarCLass Hello world. [user=mary, ip=4.3.2.1] 
WARN LogoutClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=1.2.3.4] 
DEBUG FooClass error, ERROR, Error! [user=mary, ip=3.2.4.5] 
ERROR AuthClass Nothing happened. This is worthless. Don't log this. 
[user=mary, ip=1.2.3.3] 

We can probably skip the DEBUG messages; the LogoutClass messages look harmless and the last message actually says that it's worthless. mary error NOT debug NOT worthless NOT logoutclass limits the...

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