Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

The Pivot tool allows for datasets defined in data models to be searched without the need to enter any searches into Splunk. In this recipe, you leveraged the transaction data model dataset, created in a previous recipe, which brings together all application requests and associated responses. You applied filters to the dataset to identify only the successful checkout transactions. Splunk then subsequently displayed the count of transactions that matched the specified filter over the selected time range and you chose to display this as a single-value visualization and add it to the Product Monitoring dashboard. Behind the scenes, Splunk uses the defined dataset and dataset fields, together with the field filters, to create ...