What you need for this book

To follow along with the recipes provided in this book, you will need an installation of Splunk Enterprise 6 and the sample data that is made available with this book. The recipes are intended to be portable to all Splunk Enterprise environments, but for best results, we suggest that you use the samples provided with this book.

Splunk Enterprise 6 can be downloaded for free for most major platforms from http://www.splunk.com/download.

The samples provided with this book will also be packaged with the Splunk Event Generator tool so that the event data can be refreshed or events can be replayed as new as you work through the recipes.

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