splunk quick overview for emirates travel hackathon
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Copyright © 2015 Splunk Inc.
Splunk at the Emirates Travel HackathonHal Rottenberg, Developer Evangelist
Splunk is…● An engine for machine data– collect– index– query– report
● ANY DATA!
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Splunk Enterprise 6.3Indexes Any Data from Any Source
AlertsWire Data Metrics ChangesScriptsConfigurationsLog Files
DatabasesNetworks Servers Virtual Machines
Smartphones and Devices
CustomApplicationsSecurity
Tickets
WebServerSensors
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What is Machine Data?● Any text-based data
● Unstructured / Polystructured
● Examples– Log files– Metrics– CSV– JSON– Totally arbitrary shit
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Why use Splunk Today?● Easy to install, web-based analytics platform
● Splunk can be your back-end, front-end, middleware
● Advanced query language: stats, analytics, reporting
● REST API, SDKs for Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, C#
● Rich web platform capabilities
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Resources● Docs and more:
https://splunk.box.com/emirates-hackathon
● Twitter: @halr9000
● These slides: http://slideshare.net/halr9000
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