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Demo: Monitoring using Splunk

Demo: Monitoring using Splunk

Welcome to the demo. In this demo, I'll log on to my local Splunk environment and show you a couple of pointers about observability. So let me log in. Let's open up search and reporting app. Now one point here, if you are not familiar with Splunk, don't worry about all the details related to Splunk itself. For example, I'll be running a couple of commands, you don't need to know the Splunk commands. The point here is for you to learn the observability side of things when it comes to logs, not learning Splunk. I'm going to run a search. All right. A quick explanation of what this search does, and once again, if you're not familiar with Splunk, Splunk is a log aggregation platform. What I have done here is, I have ingested Splunk tutorial logs for learning purposes, and I'm simply retrieving logs from that index. I had indexed the tutorial data into an index. That index name is main and I'm filtering the logs to the source type access_combine_w_cookie. This basically means give me the…

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