Who this book is for
This book is intended for all users, beginner or advanced, 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 a business—IT, security, product, marketing, and many more!
Although the book and its recipes are written so that anyone can follow along, it does progress at a steady pace into concepts or features that might not be common knowledge to a beginner. If there exists the necessity to understand more about a feature, Splunk has produced a vast amount of documentation on all Splunk Enterprise features available at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk.
There might also be sections that utilize regular expressions and introduce recipes that take advantage of the Python and XML languages. Experience with these concepts is not required but beneficial.
