Preface

In Splunk Essentials, Second Edition, we have added many more features that readers should find useful. Splunk Enterprise Software, or Splunk, is an extremely powerful tool for searching, exploring, and visualizing data of all types. Splunk is becoming increasingly popular, as more and more businesses, both large and small, discover its ease and usefulness. Analysts, managers, students, and others can quickly learn how to use the data from their systems, networks, web traffic, and social media to make attractive and informative reports. This is a straightforward, practical, and quick introduction to Splunk that should have you making reports and gaining insights from your data in no time. We have added a number of helpful hints and exercises that will help you get up to speed with Splunk in no time. Throughout the book, we have provided step-by-step instructions, pointers, and illustrations to help you on your way.