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As with most rapidly growing companies, Rent the Runway didn’t have the time to create the Splunk dashboards/reports and alerts they desired for business efficiencies. Cover-4 helped a business unit that was new to Splunk create statistical dashboards that enable them to accurately track and report on how their assets move through the warehouse.

These dashboards further allow management to get a ‘real-time’ view of all items moving through the inbound process, while also providing the floor shift managers with the ability to track individual workers’ efficiency in real-time.

Rent The Runway – # 28 on CNBC’s 2015 list of 50 Disruptor companies that are revolutionizing business:
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/12/rent-the-runway-disruptor-50.html

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I have had pre-sales opportunities seriously consider counting Splunk out of contention, due to this scenario.  Making changes and getting no results makes it seem to the customer that Splunk is broken.

I am sure most of us are aware of the use of Precedence in Splunk, which is described in detail here:   http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.1/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles

It’s confusing at best.  I understand why it is built this way, but it still makes me want to see if how many times I could get my laptop to skip across the pool.

Recently, someone tipped me off to Btool.  It is embedded in Splunk v6 and will tell you what files and the values in the stanzas, are actually being used.   It is run in the command line and per the .conf file in question, you can see what is going on in the background of file precedence.

In addition to revealing what is happening with precedence, Btool can also check your configuration file syntax.   Below is a unix example of the syntax and some simple commands you can run to make Btool work for you:

On the splunk server–

splunk btool inputs  list –debug | egrep  -ie index  -e [\[] | more

On the forwarding host–
splunk btool outputs  list –debug
splunk btool inputs  list –debug

All of this will return what is being read from (config files) per index and sourcetype.  The precedence is listed in order, so it starts to make more sense.

You can also run–

splunk btool check

You can run this anywhere you have splunk/splunkforwarding installed and it will do a syntax check

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