Most developer guides will tell you what their book is and/or does. We aim to explain what this book isn't, and let you fill in the rest with your imagination! Thusly, please proceed to this list:
Will not cover Splunk basics
Will not cover creating dashboards via the GUI
Will not discuss how to code in Python
Will not discuss statistics
Will not discuss beer making
Splunk basics will not be covered. These include concepts such as searching (finding data, using timechart, stats, some eval commands, and so on), reporting (making basic pie charts and line charts via the GUI), data inputs (basic file monitoring, TCP and UDP inputs, Splunk forwarders), and configurations (GUI and web-based configuration editing), to name a few. Creating dashboards via the GUI? Nope. Python will be discussed, sample code will be provided, but this book will not cover the nuances of the code, nor will it teach you Python syntax. We will not cover statistical computation, other than how to practically apply some basic level of math to create value-based visualizations. Free as in beer? Nope, the choice of hops, starches, and oak-barrel aging for the creation of beer will not be discussed, but rather be consumed during the writing and/or reading of this book.
