Splunk Online Training

Module 1

Splunk Overview

Splunk package and components

Installation procedure in various OS

Splunk Architecture Basic Overview

Splunk Ports and Protocol Management

Module 2

Set up forwarding and receiving

Types of forwarders

Forwarder Deployment Topologies

Universal forwarder

Overview and limitations

Forwarding configuration

Heavy forwarder (Deployment and Capabilities)

Routing and filtering data

Third-party routing from Splunk

Functionalities of Universal and Heavy Forwarder

Module 3

Deployment Server and Forwarder Management

Configure the Deployment Server-Client Architecture

License Management

Users,roles and authentication

Splunk configuration files overview

Data feeds

Data parsing and indexing

Analyzing the Data

Module 4

Overview of Indexers and Indexes

Indexer Capabilities

Working model of Indexers

Installation and Configuration of Standalone Indexer

Managing index and index storage

Understanding Index Buckets and Data Ageing

Retention and archiving policy

Basic Cluster Architecture

Clustering Terms

Types of Clustering

Single-site Cluster Deployment

Multi-site Cluster Deployment

Role of Master and peers

Managing the cluster

Module 5

Overview of Splunk Search head and configuration

Distributed Search

Deployment of Distributed Search

Knowledge Bundles

Search head pooling

Overview of Search head clustering

Understanding Clustering Terms

Configuration of Clustering

Integrate Indexers and Search-heads

Mounted Bundles

Understanding Clustered Architecture

Search Artifacts

Module 6

Basic Overview of Splunk Search

SPL Language

Create Simple Dashboards

Setting up Alerts and Reports

Common Search Commands

Troubleshooting Steps

Splunk Development Course Content

Module 1

Splunk Overview

Prerequisites and Installing Splunk Enterprise

Navigating Splunk Web

On-boarding data into Splunk Enterprise

Module 2

Splunk knowledge objects Overview

Classify and group events

Define and Maintain Event types

Tags creation

Field extractions

Field Extractor

Search-time field extractions

Regular expression overview

Extract fields with search commands

Create custom fields at index time

Overview of Lookups

Usage of Field lookups to add info to your events

Configuring and customizing Lookups

Saved Searches

Splunk CIM Overview and its correlation

Specify Cron Notation

Module 3

Types of searches

Retrieving events

Specifying time ranges

Using subsearch

Creating statistical tables and charts

Grouping and correlating events

Predicting future events

Common search commands

Best practices in optimizing search

Functions for eval and stats command

Application of the following search commands by category

Correlation

Anomaly Detection

Reporting

Geographic

Prediction and Trending

Search and Sub-search commands

Time commands

Formats for converting strings into time-stamps

Understanding SPL syntax

Usage of Keywords and Boolean operators

Module 4

Views Overview

Simple XML

Dashboards Overview

Functionalities

Panel creation and customization

Drilldowns

Employing Queries in Dashboards

Implementing JavaScript and CSS into Dashboards

Forms Creation

Form inputs definition

Macros Overview

Understanding of Data Models

Module 5

Alerts Overview

Types of Alerts

Setup Alert actions

Scheduled Alert

Real time Alert

Custom conditional Alerts

Triggered Alerts

Alert Manager Usage

Alert Functionalities

Alert examples

Alerts via savedsearch.conf

Usage of Tokens

Troubleshooting Steps

Module 6

Reporting Overview

Create and Edit Reports

Accelerate Report

Setup Scheduled Reports

Customize Report Formats

Report Functionalities

Report examples

Report via savedsearch.conf

Usage of Tokens

Troubleshooting Steps

Module 7

Walk-through over Splunk Apps

Basic Understanding of Splunk App creation