Course Content
This three-hour course is for power users who want to identify and use transforming commands and eval functions to calculate statistics on their data. Topics will cover data series types, primary transforming commands, mathematical and statistical eval functions, using eval as a function, and the rename and sort commands.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following:
- How Splunk works
- Creating search queries
Course Objectives
- What is Data Series
- Transforming Data
- Manipulating Data with eval
- Formatting Data
Outline: Statistical Processing (SSP)
Topic 1 - What is a Data Series
- Introduce data series
- Explore the difference between single-series, multi-series, and time series data series
Topic 2 - Transforming Data
- Use the chart, timechart, top, rare, and stats commands to transform events into data tables
- Explore search modes and their effect on search results
Topic 3 - Manipulating Data with eval Command
- Understand the eval command
- Explore and perform calculations using mathematical and statistical eval functions
- Perform calculations and concatenations on field values
- Use the eval command as a function with the stats command
Topic 4 - Formatting Data
- Use the rename command
- Use the sort command