The Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit extends Splunk with additional search commands, visualizations, assistants, and examples to assist in developing and working with machine learning concepts. Machine learning tools and processes can be applied to your Splunk data to assist in predictive analytics, trending, anomaly detection, and outlier detection.
This recipe will show you how to install the Machine Learning Toolkit and the necessary prerequisites, which will be used in Chapter 13, Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics.
For more information on the Machine Learning Toolkit, check out https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/MLApp/latest/User/About.
