Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook: With Splunk, reporting and communicating insight is simple – find out with this Splunk book, created to help you unlock more effective Business Intelligence

The book focuses on the health and efficiency monitoring of applications. It's very comprehensive as it covers many scenarios and common problems that can plague front end - customer facing environments. This book will assist in you extracting the gold within your data that you may not realize you have. You will be able to create dashboards for an entire application from end-to-end and give your clients an overall picture of what is happening through the many layers of an application. This book will cover transaction failure rate, database connection health, web logs, and how to work with all of these different types of data to paint the whole picture for the clients to view in a single place. It is a great next step after reading "Exploring Splunk" (be sure to read that book first) to start building your Splunk environment to cater to your companies needs around operational intelligence. It will help give you the ability to determine when and where your applications are failing, which is a huge win and this book will help most with reaching their goals around this use case. Hope to see more of these books around other use cases.

This 400+ page cookbook covers off just about every topic you'd expect from a great cookbook; from data ingestion, search/reporting/dashboarding, all the way through to optimisation and customisation options. I particularly like the "How it works..." sections, which explain what Splunk is doing behind the scenes and under the covers to make it all work. This can sometimes be a little difficult to work out using just the official Splunk documentation. I'm pretty sure everyone will find a few new gems from this cookbook, and it's going on my most useful list!