Practical Splunk for Beginners, 2nd Edition

Description

A hands-on approach to learning the Splunk platform to search, report, and visualize machine-generated data. Splunk is the market-leading platform for unified observability, enabling organizations to develop, organize, and communicate data insights. Using Splunk, you can collect, transport, and index peta-byte scale telemetry data in a centralized platform. Application developers, SREs, DevOps professionals, and security analysts can use Splunk to explore and analyze data in real time, empowering them to respond to incidents rapidly. The Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) is the secret to Splunk’s capabilities in slicing and dicing the data. In addition to SPL, Splunk provides versatile tools such as field extractions, lookups, dashboards, and alerts to develop intelligence using the data collected. With all the sophisticated features offered by Splunk, beginners usually find the platform difficult to learn. That is where this well-designed and user-oriented course comes in.

Overview

Practical Splunk for Beginners LiveLessons, Second Edition provides you with functional, hands-on instruction on how to create data intelligence from machine-generated data and then use Splunk Dashboard Studio to display it. Using several examples and demonstrations, this course walks through the most useful functionalities, such as using the field extraction wizard, grouping events, using external lookups, creating statistics, configuring alerts, scheduling searches, and developing dashboards. Learners gain valuable skill and knowledge to create complex SPL queries, understand queries written by others, and improve dashboard performance. The real-world examples presented in this course (for example, latency and HTTP error analysis of a web application) will enable learners to immediately make an impact in their organizations.

About the Instructor

Karun Subramanian is an IT operations expert focusing on modernizing monitoring and observability. With more than 20 years of experience, Karun has helped numerous companies transform their IT operations ecosystem. His expertise includes log aggregation, time series databases, cloud infrastructure, and machine data analytics. He is a Splunk Certified Architect. Karun is the author of the book Practical Splunk Search Processing Language: A Guide for Mastering SPL Commands for Maximum Efficiency and Outcome.

Skill Level

Beginner to Intermediate

Learn How To

Search using Search Processing Language (SPL)
Group and correlate events
Perform statistical calculations from search results
Visualize data using charts
Create reports and alerts
Create dashboards
Use lookups to enhance search results
Create data dashboards in Splunk Dashboard Studio
Who Should Take This Course

Users in the IT Operations area who need to use Splunk for monitoring and troubleshooting their applications and infrastructure
Application developers and architects who need to analyze application log files
Security professionals, who can use the course if they use Splunk as an SIEM platform
Course Requirements

Basic Linux commands
Basic SQL queries