Introduction to Splunk

Course Description

The course will help you move from the basics of “What is Splunk?” to more advanced topics of onboarding data and creating alerts.

These videos will also cover career paths, tips and tricks, and further areas of study.

In this online Splunk training, you will be introduced to the Splunk software platform and its capabilities. You will learn the basics of Splunk and advance to topics including onboarding data and alerts.

Splunk is a software platform that allows users to search, analyze, and visualize the machine-generated data collected from applications, websites, devices, etc. that make up an organization’s IT infrastructure. In other words, it’s a tool that indexes data and makes it searchable, allowing it to be turned into operational intelligence.

The platform aggregates and analyzes digital exhaust from multiple sources, such as application program interface (API) log files, servers, websites, and mobile devices. By turning machine-generated data into intelligence, Splunk users are able to gain a solid understanding of what’s going on across IT systems and infrastructure in real-time. This allow organizations to make sound, data-driven decisions.

In Cybrary’s Intro to Splunk training you will be introduced to the platform and its capabilities, beginning with the basics. From there, you will move on to more advanced topics like alerts and onboarding data. The videos that are included in this course will demonstrate how to install Splunk Enterprise (a trial version) and forwarders to collect data from different types of hosts, and then how to work with that data. You will learn to craft searches, create reports, and create dashboards.

Additionally, lessons in this training will cover career paths, tips and tricks, and further areas of study. This Splunk certification training contains 2 hours of clock time for the included lessons. Upon finishing the course, you will have earned 2 CEU/CPE and you will receive a Certificate of Completion.

There are many reasons that you should learn to use the Splunk platform if you are working in the IT industry. Here are just a handful of them:

There are many reasons that you should learn to use the Splunk platform if you are working in the IT industry. Here are just a handful of them:

It’s Easy to Learn_ – With Splunk, you don’t have to learn an entirely new set of commands, even though it uses a customer query language to execute searches and create dashboards. The platform’s language is based on the UNIX commands that you already know, making it simple to learn and use Splunk.

You Can Troubleshoot Proactively – It used to be that you would troubleshoot a problem or crisis after the damage had already taken a toll. Splunk’s dashboards change the game. They allow you to monitor all systems at the same time, so if a problem occurs, you are able to begin looking for a solution before anyone even notices what happened.

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Splunk Products, Resources, and Certifications

Module 3: Setting Up Splunk

Module 4: Data

Module 5: Using Data

Module 6: Conclusion