Alerting when predicted sales exceed inventory

In this final recipe, you will create a scheduled alert type that triggers when predicted sales are expected to exceed the levels of inventory levels on hand. This type of information is a key perspective of operational intelligence, as by knowing ahead of time that we might be running low on inventory, we might have time to order more before we actually run out.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface and have a good command over the Splunk search language as you have completed the earlier recipes in this book. You should also have configured the e-mail settings in your Splunk server to enable the delivery of e-mail alerts.

Additionally, this chapter relies on an inventory lookup implemented in the Looking up inventory from an external database recipe in Chapter...