Splunk Advanced
Target Audience: This course is designed for individuals who have completed Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1 training or have equivalent practical experience using Splunk.
Course Objectives:
Deepen your understanding of advanced search techniques and reporting capabilities.
Learn how to leverage data transformations and visualizations to gain deeper insights from your data.
Explore techniques for optimizing Splunk performance and scaling your Splunk deployment.
Gain an understanding of how to manage Splunk users, configure security settings, and troubleshoot common issues.
Course Length: 2 Days
Advanced Searching and Reporting
Review of Search Basics: Recap of search operators, wildcards, and field extraction techniques.
Advanced Search Techniques:
Subsearches and macros for building complex search pipelines.
Statistical commands (sum, avg, min, max, count, etc.) and their applications.
Using the join command to combine data from multiple indexes.
Leveraging time-based searches for analyzing trends and patterns.
Advanced Reporting:
Creating custom dashboards with various chart types (line, bar, pie, etc.) to visualize search results.
Leveraging search reports for scheduled and ad-hoc reporting needs.
Building interactive dashboards with drill-down capabilities.
Search Best Practices:
Optimizing search performance with techniques like filtering and summary indexing.
Leveraging search accelerators for faster results on large datasets.
Debugging and troubleshooting common search errors.
Data Transformation, Analytics, and Administration
Data Transformation:
Using the eval command for data manipulation and calculations.
Field extraction techniques with regular expressions (rex) for advanced data parsing.
Leveraging lookups for enriching data with additional information.
Analytics and Machine Learning:
Introduction to Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit.
Exploring anomaly detection, clustering, and forecasting techniques for data analysis.
Utilizing linear regression for analyzing time series data.
Splunk Administration:
Managing Splunk users and roles.
Configuring authentication and authorization settings.
Optimizing search indexes for performance and data retention.
Monitoring Splunk health and troubleshooting common issues.
Advanced Splunk Features:
Introduction to Splunk Apps for extending Splunk functionality.
Exploring data integrations with various data sources using Splunk Connect for Receivers.
Understanding Splunk Cloud and its deployment options.
Hands-on Labs: Throughout the course, participants will have opportunities to apply their learnings through hands-on labs that reinforce the concepts covered in the lectures.