Extending	Splunk	via	
ODBC	with	Tableau	
Joe	Specht	
Vice	President,	Enterprise	ApplicaBons,	
Tableau
2	
Agenda	
Splunk	via	ODBC?	
What	is	Tableau?	
Why	should	I	care?	
Cool	now	Show	me!
3	
2014	ODBC	Partnership
4	
Tableau’s	Mission
5	
Tableau’s	Desktop	
Tableau Desktop
• Explore and visualize data
• Self-service analytics for everyone
• Blazing speed against massive data
6	
Tableau	Server	and	Online	
Tableau Server &
Tableau Online
• Complete business intelligence system
• Web dashboards and applications
• Secure information management
• Enterprise scalability
7	
Data	flow
8	
Splunk	Data	in	Tableau
9	
DEMO
10	
Splunk	Users	At	Tableau 		
•  Security–	Selected	as	the	SIEM	tool	for	Tableau	
•  We	will	use	both	the	packaged	SIEM	and	Tableau	dashboards	
•  OperaBons	–	Monitoring,	TroubleshooBng,	and	ReporBng	
•  Both	Splunk	searches	and	Splunk	as	a	Tableau	Data	Source	
•  Development	–	Performance	TesBng,	Bug	analysis,	and	TroubleshooBng	
•  Both	Splunk	searches	and	Splunk	as	a	Tableau	Data	Source	
•  MarkeBng	–	Usage	Analysis	
•  Splunk	as	a	Tableau	Data	Source	–	No	use	of	splunk	data	prior	to	ODBC	
•  Business	Analysts	–	Conversion	Rates	and	Product	Downloads	
•  Splunk	as	a	Tableau	Data	Source	–	No	use	of	splunk	data	prior	to	ODBC	
•  ExecuBves	–	Reports	
•  Splunk	as	a	Tableau	Data	Source	–	No	use	of	splunk	data	prior	to	ODBC
11	
Splunk	Use	Cases	At	Tableau
12	
Use	Case	Screen	Shots
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Wrap	Up	
Analyzing	Splunk	data	in	Tableau	is	easy	
Use	Tableau	dashboards	to	analyze	
Contextual	searches	to	Splunk	are	awesome	
Drill	down	to	specific	details	with	Splunk
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Thank	You

Tableau Customer Presentation

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Two years ago or so Splunk and Tableau partnered to Deliver
  • #4 Two years ago or so Splunk and Tableau partnered to Deliver ODBC connectivity to Splunk data For me, as a Splunk and Tableau user I was thrilled to be able to get my Splunk data into Tableau!
  • #5 Quickly, let’s talk about Tableau
  • #6 Three paid products. Desktop, Server, and Online Desktop is a tool that allows for drag and drop visual analytics of data sources Splunk ODBC in this case
  • #7 Server and Tableau Online allow sharing of the analytics with everyone in your organization As well, specific to this case, allows extracting data from Splunk via ODBC for analytics
  • #8 Servers generate Logs Which are indexed by Splunk Which is extracted to Tableau Server To generate Analytics Which allow contextual links back to Splunk as queries Which are predefined (safe), contextual with Variables, and fast searches
  • #9 Set up a report Splunk is a standard Data source in Tableau Put in Search head and credentials Find your report And then start dragging and dropping to explore you data
  • #10 Demo – Slides if we can’t do a demo Show dashboard Show Filtering Show drill down on error Show link back to Splunk
  • #14 Splunk is a swiss army knife of getting at data This makes it an amazing source for Tableau since we are great at data analytics The combination of the two allows easy exploration of questions “Hey why did this response time spike?” as we saw in the demo In addition, as a splunk administrator, it allows two things: Less load on my search heads Contextual searches that give less experienced users a safe place to start with their investigation.