Forecasting weekly sales

In this recipe, you will write a Splunk search with the assistance of the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to forecast weekly sales based upon previous sales totals. The results will be visualized and added to a dashboard.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time - Getting Data In, as well as have installed the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit application. You should also complete the earlier recipes in this chapter and be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.

How to do it...

Follow the steps in this recipe to identify potential session spoofing activity:

1. Log in to your Splunk server.
2. Select the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit application.
3. Click on the Assistants dropdown menu and select Forecast Time Series:

4. Ensure the time range picker is set to Last 90 Days and type the following search into the search bar. Then, click on the search button or hit Enter...