In this book, you've been able to learn about some techniques that are moderate and complicated to implement, though all of them can save a Splunk administrator time. Many of these techniques have been used at both small and large companies, as well as enterprise and government facilities from dev-ops to security.

My hope for you is that you glean something that is useful to your day-to-day activities, and leverage it to succeed the way only you know you can. There's a lot of good information within this book, from dashboards, to searching, to advanced data routing, and data model powered panels.

All of these are separate, yet when you pick up these techniques the way you pick up a wrench from a workbench and implement them, you will have many more tools in your belt, to help you look like a rock-star to the next person who asks for the next impossible thing.

There's a lot of assumptions that are made in this book about the skill level of the reader and because of that it may seem like...