Splunk Enterprise is a comprehensive data platform that facilitates data ingestion, manipulation, and analytics, and can be automated using APIs for efficient threat-hunting and self-service internal tooling. The platform supports a variety of data sources and features its own Search Processing Language (SPL) and robust API capabilities, best accessed through an AWS AMI instance for exploring its functionalities. The setup includes a forwarder on a Windows host and a receiver on Splunk Enterprise, with authentication options like Basic HTTP and token authentication. The guide explores using cURL and Tines for automating search operations, with Tines offering a more modular and resilient workflow, including polling, error checking, and email notifications for results. This enhances usability by allowing automation of threat-hunting processes, and with a constructed front-end form, different teams can leverage these automated workflows without requiring software development expertise, thereby streamlining internal operations and enabling rapid deployment of internal tools.