Splunk Fundamentals

Purpose: Learn how to use Splunk effectively.

Audience: Anyone needing the skills to use Splunk effectively

Role: Software Developer, General user 

Course Overview:

The Splunk training course is designed to demonstrate a functional use of Splunk. The course begins with a lesson on how to utilize Splunk to run basic searches. Next, it explores stats, tags, and even types and fundamentals of Splunk. The course concludes with a lesson on creating reports and dashboards.

Productivity Objectives:

After this course, you will be able to:

• Utilize Splunk to run searches

• Identify the fundamentals of a Splunk search

• Discover the stats command and its functions

• Create reports and dashboards

Course Duration:

This course will be delivered in 2 Days

Course Outline:

Splunk - Getting Started

• Populating data 

• Controlling Splunk

• Creating your first dashboard

Bringing in Data

• Splunk data sources

• Creating Indexes

• Buckets

• Log Files as data input

• Splunk events and fields

• Extracting new fields

Search Processing Language

• Anatomy of a search

• Time modifiers

• Filtering search results

• Functions and Commands

• Fields/Stats/Tags

• Search best practices

• Additional Search commands

           Reporting, Alerts, and Search Optimization

• Data enrichment with Lookups

• Creating and scheduling reports

• Creating alerts

• Search and Report acceleration

• Scheduling options

Dynamic Dashboarding

• Creating effective dashboards

• Types of dashboards

• Creating a time range input

• Static real-time dashboard

Data Models and Pivots

• Creating a data model

• Creating a Pivot table

• Data model acceleration

• Rearranging your dashboard