Splunk On-Demand: Splunk Fundamentals - Level 1 Course Outline
***Note: This is an On-Demand (self-study) Course, 2 days of content, 6-months unlimited access, $495***
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You may take this course at any time; there are no set dates. This On-Demand (self-study) training course includes expert lectures, demonstrations and exercises that cover the same content that is included in our instructor-led (ILT) class. Note: The 6-month access period will begin at time of purchase.
Overview
In this 2-day course, you will learn the fundamentals of using Splunk. You will get familiar with the interface, how to bring in data, how to search and report data. In addition, you will be able to create alerts and dashboards to help spot problems and track trends. Data models and Pivots are also explored.
Splunk is a industry leader in operational intelligence. With Splunk, machine data is accessible, usable and valuable to IT and business users.
Prerequisites
General understanding of the Windows interface.
Do You Still Prefer a Live, Instructor-led Class?
Already know On-Demand training is not right for you? We also offer this course in a live, instructor-led format. For details, click on the link below:
Splunk Training Classes
Duration
You have 24/7 access for 180-days to this digital course that includes 3h 33m of video presentation plus hours of practice labs. As a traditional course it would be a 2-day class.
Course Outline
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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