Splunk Architect's Guide: Master system and data administration to become a certified Splunk Architect

A comprehensive guide that will help you clear the 24-hour practical of Splunk Architect Certification Lab
About This Book
* Deployment and authentication of every tier within the Splunk infrastructure
* Delve into planning, building and deploying with this highly practical guide
* A comprehensive guide to advanced search, dashboards, reports, system and more
Who This Book Is For
If you want to become a Splunk Architect, this book is a must on your shelf. This is an end-to-end guide taking you through the entire Splunk ecosystem with the practical approach and relevant use cases mentioned. You need to be aware of IT operations and come from an analytics domain to get the most out of the book.
What You Will Learn
* Learn to Install Splunk on your local system
* Plan and Scale your application to map out the system design
* Build expert systems that can solve problems in a probabilistic way
* Pre-plan how network architecture will be implemented and scaled
* Learn to build tiers, indexers, search heads and heavy forwarders
* Ensure authentication and data retrieval to operation of your system
* Deploy Universal Forwarder to manage deployment server data inputs
* Set up the Splunk Distributed Management Console in Splunk CORE
In Detail
Splunk is a leading platform which is used to collect, analyze, monitor and take decisions on big data generated by different sources. It allows you to take better business decisions to drive operational performance and quality business results.
The planning phase of the book will help you plan and scale along with architectural catography to map out the system design. You will learn to manage Splunk performance, which includes both concurrent users and searches. Later, the building phase will delve into advanced concepts such as building and connecting administrative tier, indexers, search heads and more. You will build heavy forwarders to manage data streams and operate effectively. Learn to build and deploy Splunk Universal Forwarders globally using a bash script. Finally, checking phase will help you setup the Splunk Distributed Management Console (DMC) in order to have visibility on your Splunk CORE infrastructure to optimize scalability in growing infrastructures.
By the end of the book, you will learn how to architect and deploy applications with best practices. With this book, you will have a clear vision of how Splunk will be used in the institution or the department.