Splunk Business Flow

Ahmed Zard
28/7/2019

THE AGENDA FOR Presentation

  • INTRODUCTION: Splunk Business Flow Overview

  • Splunk Business Flow definitions: event log, Journey, Flowchart, & Flow

  • Splunk Business Flow workflow: data preparation, data exploration

  • Splunk Business Flow Demo: Upload the tutorial data, Create a Flow Model, preview your Flow Model, Save your work as a Flow

Splunk Business Flow Overview:

  • allows users to explore business flows and processes from event logs with an easy-to-use, point-and-click user interface.

  • identifies related events and groups them into ordered sequences called Journeys

  • Built by Splunk Inc

  • Has Separate license

event log, Journey, Flowchart, & Flow:

  • Event Logs: Consider the event log to be a timeline of events generated from a process or system. Each event contains a timestamp, a step, and a Correlation ID

  • Journey: Splunk Business Flow uses Correlation IDs to identify related events in the event log and group them into Journeys

  • Flowchart: groups a collection of Journeys into a single, ordered sequence of steps

  • Flow: a saved view of the analyses and filter settings you applied to the Flow Model in the Explorer

data preparation, data exploration:

  • Data preparation:

    Occur at Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud

    you upload or forward raw data into your Splunk deployment

  • Data exploration:

Occur at Splunk Business Flow

you create a Flow Model

Slide With Code

library(readxl)
plotly1 <- read_excel("C:/Users/be174.BARQSYSTEMS/Documents/R/plotly1.xlsx")
View(plotly1)

Slide With Plot

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