Learning Splunk

Splunk lets you make sense of the chaos of your data. Check out this course to get up and running quickly.

Introduction

• Make sense of your data with Splunk
• What is Splunk?
• Install Splunk

1. Tour of Major Features

• Add data
• Set up your Splunk user
• Search
• Reporting
• Add-ons

2. Search

• Basics of the search interface
• Simple filtering
• Time
• Understanding results: Fields
• Complex filtering
• Advanced search syntax
• Challenge: Track down an issue
• Solution: Track down an issue

3. Reporting and Dashboards

• Reporting overview
• Create a simple report
• Visualize errors
• Create a dashboard panel

4. Alerting

• Alerting concepts
• Create an alert
• Advanced alerting
• Challenge: Install an add-on
• Solution: Install an add-on

5. Practical Splunk

• WebApp monitoring challenges
• Install the universal forwarder
• Configure remote data
• Using multiple data streams

Conclusion

• Next steps