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Big Data Analytics Using Splunk

Deriving Operational Intelligence from Social Media, Machine Data, Existing Data Warehouses, and Other Real-Time Streaming Sources

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  • Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Big Data and Splunk

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 1-7
  3. Getting Data into Splunk

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 9-30
  4. Processing and Analyzing the Data

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 31-62
  5. Visualizing the Results

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 63-96
  6. Defining Alerts

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 97-108
  7. Web Site Monitoring

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 109-125
  8. Using Log Files To Create Advanced Analytics

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 127-138
  9. The Airline On-Time Performance Project

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 139-141
  10. Getting the Flight Data into Splunk

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 143-160
  11. Analyzing Airlines, Airports, Flights, and Delays

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 161-193
  12. Analyzing a Specific Flight Over the Years

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 195-209
  13. Analyzing Tweets

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 211-229
  14. Analyzing Foursquare Check-Ins

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 231-253
  15. Sentiment Analysis

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 255-282
  16. Remote Data Collection

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 283-294
  17. Scaling and High Availability

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 295-306
  18. The Performance of Splunk

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 307-322
  19. Useful Splunk Apps

    • Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
    Pages 323-343
  20. Back Matter

    Pages 345-353

About this book

Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and patterns of user access in real time, as the access is occurring. Gone are the days when you need be caught out by shifting public opinion or sudden changes in customer behavior. Splunk’s easy to use engine helps you recognize and react in real time, as events are occurring.

Splunk is a powerful, yet simple analytical tool fast gaining traction in the fields of big data and operational intelligence. Using Splunk, you can monitor data in real time, or mine your data after the fact. Splunk’s stunning visualizations aid in locating the needle of value in a haystack of a data. Geolocation support spreads your data across a map, allowing you to drill down to geographic areas of interest. Alerts can run in the background and trigger to warn you of shifts or events as they are taking place.

With Splunk you can immediately recognize and react to changing trends and shifting public opinion as expressed through social media, and to new patterns of eCommerce and customer behavior. The ability to immediately recognize and react to changing trends provides a tremendous advantage in today’s fast-paced world of Internet business. Big Data Analytics Using Splunk opens the door to an exciting world of real-time operational intelligence.

  • Built around hands-on projects
  • Shows how to mine social media
  • Opens the door to real-time operational intelligence

About the authors

Peter Zadrozny is an independent consultant specialized in big data, software performance, and architecture. He is also a lecturer on big data topics at San Jose State University. He has held various executive and technical roles in many countries around the world for startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. He started the operations of WebLogic in Europe and Sun Microsystems in Mexico. He is an accomplished author with various successful books, a magazine, and was an original contributor to The Grinder, a popular open source project.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Big Data Analytics Using Splunk

  • Book Subtitle: Deriving Operational Intelligence from Social Media, Machine Data, Existing Data Warehouses, and Other Real-Time Streaming Sources

  • Authors: Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5762-2

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peter Zadrozny and Raghu Kodali 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-5761-5Published: 22 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-5762-2Published: 23 August 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 376

  • Number of Illustrations: 304 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Big Data, Information Systems and Communication Service

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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