The Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (app), upgraded in version 7.0, delivers special new SPL commands, custom visualizations, assistants, and plenty of examples (referred to as showcases) to explore a variety of machine learning concepts. This chapter focuses on machine learning using one of Splunk's newest features—the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit.
We will cover the following topics:
- What is machine learning?
- Defining the toolkit.
- The toolkit workbench.
- Assistants.
- Extended SPL.
- Building a model.
In this chapter, you will come to understand what is meant by the term machine learning and how Splunk's Machine Learning Toolkit can be used to create a machine learning model, even if you are not a senior data scientist with extended statistics or machine learning experience!
