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What is Splunk

Splunk is a powerful software platform designed for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data in real-time. It is widely used across various industries for managing and extracting valuable insights from large volumes of data. Splunk transforms raw data from diverse sources into actionable intelligence through a combination of advanced indexing, searching, and visualization capabilities.

 

Key Features of Splunk:

  • Data Collection: Splunk can ingest data from a variety of sources, such as servers, applications, websites, sensors, databases, and more. This makes it a versatile tool for consolidating logs and metrics.
  • Indexing and Searching: Splunk indexes the incoming data, making it searchable. Its search processing language (SPL) allows users to query and retrieve specific information with high efficiency.
  • Real-Time Monitoring: With Splunk, users can monitor their systems and applications in real-time. It provides alerts, dashboards, and visualizations to help identify issues quickly.
  • Dashboards and Visualizations: Splunk’s dashboard capabilities allow users to create visually appealing charts, graphs, and reports, aiding in better decision-making.
  • Scalability: Splunk is scalable and can handle data from small-scale environments to enterprise-level deployments.
  • Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics: Using Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit, users can apply algorithms to detect anomalies, predict future trends, and automate tasks.
  • Integration and Extensibility: Splunk integrates with numerous third-party tools and APIs, making it flexible and adaptable to specific organizational needs.
  • Security and Compliance: Splunk is often used for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) purposes, helping organizations meet regulatory requirements and maintain secure IT environments.

Common Use Cases for Splunk:

  • IT Operations: Monitoring server performance, troubleshooting errors, and managing system uptime.
  • Security: Detecting threats, monitoring vulnerabilities, and preventing unauthorized access.
  • Application Monitoring: Ensuring the performance and availability of applications.
  • Business Analytics: Deriving insights from customer behavior, website traffic, and operational data.
  • IoT Data Analysis: Processing and analyzing data from connected devices.

Benefits of Splunk:

  • Centralized Data Management: Combines data from disparate systems into one platform.
  • Ease of Use: User-friendly interface and robust documentation.
  • Customizability: Adaptable to a wide range of business needs.
  • Fast Troubleshooting: Quickly identifies root causes of issues through log analysis.

Splunk’s capabilities make it indispensable for organizations aiming to leverage data to improve operations, enhance security, and achieve strategic goals.

 

Splunk Certifications Available in 2024

As of 2024, Splunk offers a comprehensive certification program designed to validate expertise across various domains, including core usage, administration, security, observability, and development. Below is a detailed summary of the available certifications:

1. Core Certifications:

  • Splunk Core Certified User: Validates foundational knowledge of the Splunk platform, including performing searches, using fields and lookups, and creating alerts, basic reports, and dashboards. Learn more
  • Splunk Core Certified Power User: Demonstrates proficiency in advanced searching and reporting commands, knowledge objects, field aliases, calculated fields, and data normalization. Learn more
  • Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User: Showcases expertise in complex searches, advanced knowledge object use cases, and best practices for building dashboards and forms. Learn more

2. Administration Certifications:

  • Splunk Cloud Certified Admin: Focuses on managing and configuring Splunk Cloud, including data inputs, forwarder configuration, data management, user accounts, basic monitoring, and problem isolation. Learn more
  • Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin: Covers daily management of Splunk Enterprise, encompassing license management, indexers and search heads, configuration, monitoring, and data ingestion. Learn more
  • Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect: Emphasizes best practices for planning, data collection, sizing deployments, and managing distributed deployments with indexer and search head clustering. Learn more
  • Splunk Core Certified Consultant: Validates the ability to deploy and implement large Splunk installations, with expertise in multi-tier architectures, clustering, and scalability. Learn more

3. Security Certifications:

  • Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin: Focuses on managing the Splunk Enterprise Security environment, including event processing, deployment requirements, technology add-ons, risk analysis settings, threat intelligence, and protocol intelligence configurations. Learn more
  • Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst: Equips professionals to detect, analyze, and combat cyber threats using Splunk tools, emphasizing continual monitoring and risk mitigation. Learn more
  • Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer: Prepares individuals to create and tune effective detections, develop threat intelligence, and implement automation and orchestration for standard operating procedures. Learn more

4. Observability Certifications:

  • Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin: Covers installation and configuration of Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), including architecture, deployment planning, design, implementation, and development of glass tables and deep dives. Learn more
  • Splunk SOAR Certified Automation Developer: Focuses on installing, configuring, and using SOAR servers, planning, designing, creating, and debugging basic playbooks, and understanding complex SOAR solution development and integration, including custom coding and REST API usage. Learn more
  • Splunk O11y Cloud Certified Metrics User: Validates the ability to monitor and visualize metrics using Splunk Observability Cloud, deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry Collector, and set up alerts for real-time monitoring. Learn more

5. Development Certification:

  • Splunk Certified Developer: Demonstrates proficiency in building apps using the Splunk Web Framework, including drilldowns, advanced behaviors, visualizations, planning, creating, and packaging apps, and working with REST endpoints. Learn more

 

 

Jobs That Use Splunk

1. Splunk Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Installing, configuring, and maintaining Splunk software across enterprise systems.
  • Managing Splunk users, indexes, and data inputs for optimal performance.
  • Developing dashboards and reports for various organizational needs.
  • Ensuring data integrity and system security for Splunk environments.

2. Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Utilizing Splunk to monitor and analyze security events.
  • Identifying and responding to cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Creating and refining Splunk alerts for incident detection.
  • Collaborating with teams to implement security solutions.

3. Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Using Splunk to derive insights from large datasets.
  • Building visualizations and reports to support business decisions.
  • Streamlining data ingestion and transformation processes within Splunk.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to interpret data findings.

4. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Monitoring IT infrastructure performance using Splunk dashboards.
  • Integrating Splunk with other IT systems and tools.
  • Troubleshooting system issues identified through Splunk logs.
  • Automating workflows and alerts to improve IT operations.

5. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Implementing Splunk in CI/CD pipelines for application monitoring.
  • Using Splunk to analyze system logs during deployments.
  • Optimizing application performance by identifying bottlenecks via Splunk data.
  • Ensuring smooth integration of Splunk with cloud environments.

6. IT Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Overseeing IT operations through insights provided by Splunk.
  • Developing strategies to optimize system uptime and performance.
  • Analyzing trends in system behavior to predict and mitigate issues.
  • Leading teams to implement operational improvements based on Splunk reports.

 

 

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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 1/6/2025 - 1/7/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Class Date(s): 1/8/2025 - 1/9/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 2/4/2025 - 2/5/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Class Date(s): 2/6/2025 - 2/7/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 3/4/2025 - 3/5/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 3/31/2025 - 4/1/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Class Date(s): 4/2/2025 - 4/3/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 4/29/2025 - 4/30/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 5/27/2025 - 5/28/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1
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Class Date(s): 6/23/2025 - 6/24/2025
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Splunk Fundamentals - Level 2
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Available Splunk Training Formats

While a large number of people today use Splunk products in some capacity, and are familiar with its general usage, many of them just scratch the surface of knowing what this diverse suite of software and services can do, and how it can help them do their jobs more efficiently.

Business Computer Skills offers Splunk Training in a variety of formats to help users build their Splunk skills:

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What is Splunk?

Splunk is a powerful software platform designed for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data in real-time. It is widely used across various industries for managing and extracting valuable insights from large volumes of data. Splunk transforms raw data from diverse sources into actionable intelligence through a combination of advanced indexing, searching, and visualization capabilities.

Below are links to our available Splunk Training courses, Splunk Tutorials, and other great resources to help you learn all the available topics for Splunk.

Free Splunk Tutorials and Resources

As a service to our customers, we are actively developing a library of free Splunk tutorials for you to use. We know that sometimes you may not need an entire course to learn what you need in Splunk, so we wanted to provide some good resources that can help you accomplish some common tasks in Splunk.

Below are some links to free Splunk tutorials from Business Computer Skills and other sources:

  • No Tutorials are currently available.

Splunk Certifications

Getting a Certifcation in Splunk will demonstrate a proficiency in using Splunk. These certifications can be beneficial to your career and can be obtained by getting the appropriate training and passing a certification exam from .

  • No Certifications are currently available.

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