Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1

Course Description:

The Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1 course is a 2-day class that covers fundamentals of using Splunk. Students will get familiar with the Splunk interface, how to import data, how to search and report data. Additionally, students will be able to create alerts and dashboards to help spot problems and track trends. Data models and Pivots are also explored.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Splunk Basics
• Using Data
• Search Processing Language
• Reporting, Alerts, and Search Optimization
• Dynamic Dashboarding
• Data Models and Pivots

Prerequisites:

General understanding of the Windows interface.

Splunk - Getting Started
Installing Splunk
Creating a Splunk App
Populating data with Eventgen
Controlling Splunk
Configuring Eventgen
Viewing the Destinations app
Creating your first dashboard

Bringing in Data
Splunk and big 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
Additional Search commands

Reporting, Alerts, and Search Optimization
Data classification with Event Types
Data normalization with Tags
Data enrichment with Lookups
Creating and scheduling reports
Creating alerts
Search and Report acceleration
Scheduling options
Summary indexing

Dynamic Dashboarding
Creating effective dashboards
Types of dashboards
Form inputs
Creating a time range input
Static real-time dashboard
Creating a choropleth map

Data Models and Pivots
Creating a data model
Data model acceleration
Rearranging your dashboard

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