Acceleration

With Splunk, you can search through enormous volumes of data (proportional to the ever-growing number of events to summarize, as well as the number of users accessing the data), potentially increasing the amount of time it takes to complete beyond acceptable lengths.

Big data – summary strategy

Generally speaking, you create summaries of data to report on big data. These summaries are created by background runs of the search on which your report is based. When a user runs a report against data that has been pre-summarized, it runs considerably faster because the summaries it uses are much smaller bits of the total number of events to be searched.

This concept of pre-summarizing events can be used with your reports, data models, and indexes. Right now, we will focus on report summary acceleration.

Report acceleration

As we've already stated, summary acceleration uses summaries of events to speed up completion times for certain kinds of reports, and report summary acceleration uses...