Splunk Training: Operational Data Analytics with Splunk (SLK101)

This Splunk training course introduces the students to the Splunk Operational Data Analytics platform.

1. Splunk Introduction
   1. Splunk Defined
   2. Splunk Products
   3. The Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
   4. Splunk Editions
   5. Deployment Options
   6. Common Components
   7. Splunk Admin Dashboard (Web UI)
   8. Events
   9. Data Indexing
   10. Distributed Splunk Indexing and Searching
   11. Architecture for a Multi-Tier Splunk Enterprise Deployment
   12. Summary
2. Splunk Data Sources
   1. Data Source Types
   2. The Source Types Automatically Recognized by Splunk
   3. The “Pre-trained” Source Types
   4. Windows ® Data Sources
   5. Data Indexing
   6. Web UI for Adding Data to Indexer
   7. Web UI: Adding Data Flow for Local File Upload
   8. Web UI: Add Data for Monitoring
   9. Automatic Recognition of Data Source
   10. Where is My Uploaded File?
   11. Custom Event Format
   12. Summary
3. Searching and Reporting with Splunk
   1. Data Searching
   2. The Search Processing Language (SPL)
   3. Searching and Reporting Activities
   4. The Search Page
   5. Core Search Concepts
   6. Search Command Auto-Completion
   7. The Search Basics
   8. Search Command Categories
   9. Command Examples
   10. More Examples of Search Commands
   11. Statistical Commands
   12. Statistical and Time Functions
   13. From SQL to SPL – the Translation Table
   14. Visual Aids for Building Search Queries
   15. Visualizations
   16. Save Your Searches as Dashboards
   17. The Delete Operation
   18. How Do I Delete My Data?
   19. Summary
4. Splunk Forwarders
   1. Flavors of Splunk Forwarders
   2. Forwarder Comparison Table (Abridged)
   3. The Splunk Forwarder Diagram
   4. Splunk Universal Forwarder (UF) Supported OSes
   5. UF Functions
   6. What UF Cannot Do
   7. Summary

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Experience in the following is required for this Hadoop class: