Event pattern detection

Event pattern detection is a feature in Splunk which helps in increasing the speed of analytics by automatically grouping similar events to discover meaningful insight in the given machine data. It helps users to quickly discover relationship, patterns, and anomalies in the given data, to build meaningful analytics on top of it.

In simpler terms, event pattern detection not only helps to find out the common patterns in the data but also highlights those events which are rare and could be anomalies. The event pattern detection feature of Splunk can be helpful in the following ways:

  • Auto discover meaningful patterns in the given dataset
  • Search data without the need to know what to search for
  • Detection of anomalies, rare events, ...

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