Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2

Course Description:

The Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2 course is a 2-day class continues on from the Level 1 class and exposes students to additional Splunk features. Features that will help students capture and index data so that they can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Splunk Basics Review
• Getting data into Splunk
• Building an Operational Intelligence App
• Advanced Querying
• Analytics and Machine Learning
• Optimizing Splunk

Prerequisites:

Individuals taking this class should have also completed the Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1 class or have equivalent practical experience using Splunk.

Introduction and review
Splunk Enterprise Features
Search Review
The Search pipeline
Search modes
Search best practices

Getting data into Splunk
Data Inputs
Indexing files and directories
Indexing the Windows Event Logs
Getting data through network ports
Scripted inputs
Configuring a Universal Forwarder
Using the HTTP Event Collector (HEC)
Getting data from databases using DB Connect
Regular Expressions (“rex”,”regex”) in Splunk field extractions
Adding structure & meaning to data

Building an Operational Intelligence App
Application Architecture
App folder structure
Creating an app from another app
Adding Assets
Creating & customizing reports & dashboards
Adding geographical maps
Highlighting Data by Range
Scheduling PDF Delivery

Advanced Querying
The search command
The where command
The eval command
The fields command
The fillnull command
SUM(), AVG(), MIN(), MAX(), COUNT(), etc…
The join command
The trendline command

Analytics and Machine Learning
Linear regression on timeseries
The Machine Learning Toolkit
Finding anomalies
Identifying clusters
Detecting outliers
Forecasting Time Series

Optimizing Splunk
Summary indexing
Backfilling a summary index
Report Acceleration

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