Course Overview
This course is for power users who want to become experts on searching and manipulating multivalue data. The course will focus on using multivalue eval functions and multivalue commands to create, evaluate, and analyze multivalue data.
Who should attend
- Users/Analysts
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
- How Splunk works
- Creating search queries
Outline: Multivalue Fields (SMV)
Module 1 – What are Multivalue Fields?
- Define multivalue fields
- Define self-describing data
- Understand how JSON data is handled in Splunk
- Use the spath command to interpret self-describing data
- Manipulate multivalue fields with mvzip and mvexpand
- Convert single-value fields to multivalue fields with specific commands and functions
Module 2 – Create Multivalue Fields
- Create multivalue fields with the makemv command and the split function of the eval command
Module 3 – Evaluate Multivalue Fields
- Use the mvcount, mvindex, and mvfilter eval functions to evaluate multivalue fields
Module 4 – Analuze Multivalue Data
- Use the mvsort, mvzip, mvjoin, mvmap, and mvappend eval functions and the mvexpand command to analyze multivalue data