WANdisco, plc. is a public software company specialized in the area of distributed computing. WANdisco is also a corporate contributor to Hadoop, Subversion and other open source projects.
Business Challenge
- To build data processing pipelines that ingest, validate, transform and load data quickly and efficiently
- To build a system which expose intuitive APIs and interfaces for querying and investigating large data sets
- To build a system to process data with high peak traffic and short SLAs
Objective
To provide Splunk development services to prototype, document and deploy a Splunk log ingest and analysis solution that will include automation of log collection, filters, and a dashboard for per-case management, drill-down, and efficient identification of errors or anomalies via log searching.
Solution
- Real-time logs and with faster speed
- Generate report and alerts for the
desired search - Auto-analysis of indexed logs
- Detect when a critical system stops working
- Create knowledge objects for Operational
Intelligence - Visualize the graph based on actions
- User Monitoring
- Data and Application Monitoring
- Advanced Analytics
- Instant Reporting and Visualization
Scope Of Work
- Prerequisites and testing on log ingestion
- Automated log ingestion
- Creating dashboards & Use cases
- Identifying files not being ingested in Splunk
- Automated talkbacks and data ingestion
- Parsing & field extraction
- Performance analysis
- Dashboards/UI
- Platform upgrade
Key Milestones
- Designed and built a Network dashboard to provided summary of network issues observed in log
- Observed REST API connection exception on UI Server
- Transfer dashboard: Creating a panel on file transfers with file size and transfer duration
- Included a drilldown to showcase reason behind the exception in transfer
- Task Executions Dashboard: To summarize and list down all the tasks with task type
- Repair Dashboard: Created a drill down from failed repairs and co-relate the same with proposal IDs
- Splunk app for Slack
Technologies
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