Realizing the full potential of your Splunk investment requires more than just understanding current usage; it demands uncovering new opportunities to leverage your existing data for additional business impact. The new Use case discovery feature within the Value Insights dashboard in the Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC) empowers you to do exactly that.
The initial Value Insights (Beta) release delivered key metrics that demonstrate the business impact driven by Splunk, enabling organizations to track and communicate value effectively. Building on this foundation, the new Use case discovery feature expands your ability to unlock additional value from your existing data. This capability helps you identify untapped capabilities and accelerate business outcomes by mapping your data to relevant use cases. This maximizes the value your teams derive from your Splunk investment, ensuring your organization continuously unlocks greater outcomes from your data.
Unlock new opportunities with Use Case Discovery
Many organizations initially focus on a limited set of use cases to implement with Splunk. This leaves analytic potential untapped. Use case discovery feature addresses this by automatically scanning your Splunk environment to identify which use case capabilities your existing data can support. This helps you maximize your data value and align your Splunk usage with broader business objectives.
Key outcomes delivered
- Maximize data value: Automatically uncover new ways your existing data can drive business impact, eliminating the need for manual analysis and guesswork.
- Accelerate opportunity Identification: Quickly gain a clear view of bookmarked use cases ready for implementation, enabling faster expansion of Splunk’s impact across your organization.
- Prioritize Strategic Initiatives: Easily track and manage your most important use case capabilities over time, ensuring alignment with evolving business goals.
- Enable Effective Execution: Access actionable guidance tailored to each use case, empowering your teams to implement new capabilities confidently and efficiently.
Who Benefits
This feature is designed for Splunk Cloud admins and executive decision-makers who want to uncover new ways to drive business outcomes with their existing data. By surfacing actionable opportunities and providing implementation guidance, Discover New Use Cases helps your teams accelerate value realization and optimize your Splunk investment.
How to Access
Use case discovery is available in the CMC starting with the CMC 4.2.0 release. Users with the sc_admin role can access the feature directly from the Value Insights (beta) dashboard via a dedicated “Find new use cases” button, leading to the dedicated Use case Discovery dashboard.
What’s Next
Use case discovery is the next step in the Value Insights journey, complementing the initial release to focus by enabling proactive expansion of your Splunk capabilities. Explore the Use case discovery feature today to unlock additional business impact from the data you already have in Splunk.
Stay tuned for ongoing enhancements as we continue to evolve Value Insights to help you identify, understand, and maximize the business value of Splunk. In the meantime, to learn more about the Value Insights: Use case discovery and the Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC), check out our comprehensive CMC documentation. And don’t forget to visit the CMC community page to ask questions, share insights, and join the conversation.
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