Using Simple XML and Splunk Enterprise, learn how to create easy interactive dashboards to explore data. This demo showcases great tools to put ion the hands of Splunk users, help desk users and IT Operations staff.
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course
of
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presentaCon,
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regarding
future
events
or
the
expected
performance
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esCmates
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factors
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known
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us
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events
or
results
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materially.
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about
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roadmap
outlines
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direcCon
and
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3. Who
I
am
3
! Sales
Engineer
in
Germany
! Splunker
nearly
2
years
! Like
to
get
hands
on
real
world
scenarios
! CISSP
! Worked
in
the
past
for
McAfee
(Security)
and
Tibco
(AnalyCcs)
4. Self
AnalyCcs
/
TransacCon
Profiler
Dashboard
• Goals:
– Self
exploraCon
of
data
– Gaining
Ideas
from
other
departmental
users
for
new
use
cases
and
business
insight
ê “Do
we
have
this
informaCon
available?”
ê “Can
we
add
this?”
ê “Can
we
correlate
with
this?”
– How
to
get
to
this
stage?
4
5. Adding
Value
5
I
loaded
1.000.000
Records.
Start
to
add
value
for
other
departments
6. You
might
want
to
provide
an
impressive
starCng
point
for
other
people
to
explore
the
Data
(Next
to
the
RAW
Searches
and
DATA
Models)
Challenge
for
Machine
Data
in
Business
Context
! Not
every
user
who
can
benefit
might
have
SPLK
Language
skills
! Not
every
user
is
creaCve
with
data
in
the
first
step
! YOU
as
a
Splunk
Data
Analyst
might
not
be
able
to
interpret
business
data
for
Business
Insights
6
7. DemonstraCon
7
Demo
(That
is
what
you
learn
how
to
create/get
this
aPer
my
session):
Profiling
Dashboard
9. Start
With
One
Single
“TransacCon”
1. Search
and
InvesCgate
a
TransacCon
Field
‒ Filter
down
to
one
session
9
Sample
“transac7on”
fields
Username
+
Session
InformaCon
TransacCon
ID
Order-‐ID
E-‐Mail
Address
Service
Name
IP-‐Address/Hostname/System
name
10. Interview
2. Go
to
a
object
ma:er
expert
and
let
them
explain
what
happened
in
this
session
10
13. Create
Dashboards
3. Create
consistent
dashboards
by
using
some
of
the
following
methods
13
Search
Descrip7on
…
|
Cmechart
count
Easiest
one
ever
…
|
stats
dc(<fieldname>)
by
<fieldname>
DisCnct
count
gives
a
lot
of
interesCng
insights:
• Why
is
this
user
logging
on
from
so
many
different
systems
• Why
has
this
transacCon
id
so
many
different
status
codes
• Why
is
this
IP
communicaCng
to
so
many
desCnaCon
ports
…
|
transacCon
<fieldname>
|
table
duraCon
As
single
value
How
long
did
it
take?
…
|
head
1
|
table
_Cme
…
|
tail
1
|
table
_Cme
• When
was
the
first
“session”,
• When
was
the
last
“interacCon
with
the
system”
14. DemonstraCon
14
Demo
(dashboard
with
some
single
values
+
stats
+
Cme
charts
based
on
ONE
TransacCon)
16. Create
Drop
Down
Lists
4. Create
drop
down
lists
and
input
fields
to
make
the
dashboard
interacCve
‒ Thanks
to
Version
6.1
it
can
be
done
via
the
Gui
without
coding
‒ Review
the
dashboard
example
app
for
addiConal
visualizaCon
tricks
5. Tokenize
the
searches
to
make
them
flexible
16
17. DemonstraCon
17
Demo
(add
free
text
field,
pickers
(dynamic),
token
fields
+
replace
single
transacCon
id
with
token)
20. We
are
not
done
6. Make
sure
you
add
default
values
for
each
of
the
drop
down
fields.
So
in
case
someone
wants
to
see
something,
you
guide
him
to
the
right
choice
to
get
a
dashboard
populated.
20
21. DemonstraCon
21
Demo
(add
default
values
and
show
first
user
experience
accessing
the
dashboard)
24. 24
TransacCon
Profiler
Use
Cases
for…
! Helpdesk
! Support
Desk
! Second
+
Third
Level
Support
! Developers
of
In
House
ApplicaCons
! Service
Level
Manager
! MarkeCng
Departments
! IT-‐Security
/
SIEM
Use
Cases
! Business
Fraud
DetecCon
Search
and
InvesCgate
a
Single
TransacCon
Review
transacCon
with
a
subject
ma:er
expert
from
the
business
Create
a
Dashboard
for
a
single
transacCon
Create
drop
downs
for
exploraCon
Tokenize
the
searches
Set
default
values
Gain
new
ideas
and
business
insight
from
Machine
Data
• Give
this
in
the
hand’s
of
Business
People
for
• gather
Feedback
and
tune
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