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Splunk is used for a wide range of use cases, including:
Splunk is used across nearly every industry, including aerospace and defense, communications, energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, public sector, and retail, to name a few.
The validated design described in this white paper and the associated design guide represent a Splunk Enterprise on Kubernetes solution that can be applied to many use cases and industries. But in this case, we have chosen to focus on IT operations and particularly on the use case of predictive maintenance.