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Correlating Events with Transactions in Splunk

by Karun Subramanian

You will master how to correlate and group events in Splunk using transactions. Through many examples, you will learn how to generate reports and dashboards, extract fields, and compare alternative approaches to transactions.

What you'll learn

Correlating events in Splunk is an essential skill every Splunk user must have. Unfortunately, identifying and employing the right SPL commands with appropriate options can be very difficult. In this course, Correlating Events with Transactions in Splunk, you will gain a foundational knowledge of Correlating techniques in Splunk using transactions. First, you will learn the transaction command and all its useful options. Next, you will discover the all-powerful rex command to extract fields and use them in transactions. Then, you will explore how to generate reports and dashboards using transaction results. Finally, you will also gain an understanding of alternative commands such as stats and join, and when to use them. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of correlating and grouping events needed to effectively make sense of your machine data.

About the author

Karun is passionate about IT operations. He has 20+ years of hands-on experience in diverse technologies ranging from Linux Administration to Cloud technologies, and everything in between. He specializes in modernizing IT operations with automation, end-to-end monitoring, CI/CD and containerization. He holds professional certifications from half a dozen companies, including IBM, Oracle and Splunk. Karun has extensive experience in popular Application Performance Management tools such as Dynatrac... more

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