Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
• How Splunk works
• Creating search queries
What you’ll learn in this course
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.
Course Objectives
Course Outline
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 – Analyze Multivalue Data
• Use the mvsort, mvzip, mvjoin, mvmap, and mvappend eval functions and the mvexpand
command to analyze multivalue data
Further information
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