Preface

In a technology-centric world, where machines generate a vast amount of data at an incredibly high volume, Splunk has come up with its industry-leading big data intelligence platform—Splunk Enterprise. This powerful platform enables anyone to turn machine data into actionable and very valuable intelligence.

Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook is a collection of recipes that aim to provide you, the reader, with the guidance and practical knowledge to harness the endless features of Splunk Enterprise 6 for the purpose of deriving extremely powerful and valuable operational intelligence from your data.

Using easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes, this book will teach you how to effectively gather, analyze, and create a report on the operational data available in your environment. The recipes provided will demonstrate methods to expedite the delivery of intelligent reports and empower you to present data in a meaningful way through dashboards and by applying many of the visualizations available in Splunk Enterprise. By the end of this book, you will have built a powerful Operational Intelligence application and applied many of the key features found in the Splunk Enterprise platform.

This book and its easy-to-follow recipes can also be extended to act as a teaching tool for you as you introduce others to the Splunk Enterprise platform and to your new found ability to provide promotion-worthy operational intelligence.