Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook: Over 80 recipes for transforming your data into business-critical insights using Splunk, 3rd Edition

Leverage Splunk’s operational intelligence capabilities to unlock new hidden business insights and drive success

Key Features

• Tackle any problems related to searching and analyzing your data with Splunk
• Get the latest information and business insights on Splunk 7.x
• Explore the all new machine learning toolkit in Splunk 7.x

Book DescriptionSplunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data, and with Splunk Operational Cookbook, you can be confident that you are taking advantage of the Big Data revolution and driving your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics.

With more than 80 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization.

You’ll discover recipes on data processing, searching and reporting, dashboards, and visualizations to make data shareable, communicable, and most importantly meaningful. You’ll also find step-by-step demonstrations that walk you through building an operational intelligence application containing vital features essential to understanding data and to help you successfully integrate a data-driven way of thinking in your organization.

Throughout the book, you’ll dive deeper into Splunk, explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities, and perform advanced searching with machine learning to explore your data in even more sophisticated ways. Splunk is changing the business landscape, so make sure you’re taking advantage of it.

What you will learn

• Learn how to use Splunk to gather, analyze, and report on data
• Create dashboards and visualizations that make data meaningful
• Build an intelligent application with extensive functionalities
• Enrich operational data with lookups and workflows
• Model and accelerate data and perform pivot-based reporting
• Apply ML algorithms for forecasting and anomaly detection
• Summarize data for long term trending, reporting, and analysis
• Integrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunk’s API

Who this book is forThis book is intended for data professionals who are looking to leverage the Splunk Enterprise platform as a valuable operational intelligence tool. The recipes provided in this book will appeal to individuals from all facets of business, IT, security, product, marketing, and many more! Even the existing users of Splunk who want to upgrade and get up and running with Splunk 7.x will find this book to be of great value.