James H. Baxter
Splunk Core Certified Consultant - Architect - Developer and ML Practitioner at Machine Data Insights Inc.
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As a long-time Splunker, I have become increasingly aware of the existence and growth of ‘metrics’ data use in the IT industry, and my need to better understand how to work with Splunk’s metrics indexes. I recently had an opportunity to build an analytics solution in Splunk that leverages a metrics index – so I took some notes along the way, which I share in this series of articles. Metrics indexes are a bit of a different creature; if you’re just getting started on your metrics journey, I hope this info will help shorten your path.https://lnkd.in/gCwxwimUTL;DR“My simple definition and mental model of metrics indexes, based on a foundational understanding of events indexes, is that metrics indexes are designed to store numeric measurements in a highly efficient manner, and consist of events that contain just the four standard Splunk index fields: _time, source, sourcetype, and host, along with numeric measurements that are stored with a metric_name, and ‘dimension’s which are string fields that can be used for filtering and grouping the data sets.”
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I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: Splunk Core Certified Consultant from Splunk!
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I have achieved the Splunk Core Consultant certification.
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Advanced Power User is a prerequisite to Certified Core Consultant, in progress.
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I had this cert before, but passed the exam again recently to refresh it for the next 3 years.
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I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Director of Professional Services at Kinney Group Inc.!
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