Finally, opportunities to apply machine learning techniques to event data can help organizations find various cause of issues earlier and lower the time-to-resolution as well as base-lining normal operational patterns.
The reader may want to take some time to review this article: Christine Hall, September 27, 2017, Splunk Brings Machine Learning to Data Analytics, http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/machine-learning/splunk-brings-machine-learning-data-analytics.