Monitoring and Creating Alerts in Splunk - Splunk Essentials - page 165

Monitoring your system in Splunk
We often want to monitor data so that we can see what is happening with it and what it in-
dicates about the system that is creating it. In a business, sensors, logs, and other types of
data are produced that you need to keep track of by using metrics. You can set up reports to
monitor these metrics using Splunk. Here are some ways to answer questions that busi-
nesses might have.