Getting Started with Splunk Cloud

Follow our step-by-step guide through the basics of Splunk Cloud. No pressure — this guide uses a sample dataset, so you can get up-to-speed on Splunk quickly.

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• Intro to Getting Data In
  (Splunk Docs, 4 pages)
• What data can I index?
  (Splunk Docs, 2 pages)
• Get Started with Getting Data In
  (Splunk Docs, 1 page)
• Get Windows data into Splunk Cloud
  (Splunk Docs, 1 page)
• Get *nix Data into Splunk Cloud
  (Splunk Docs, 1 page)

• How to forward data to Splunk Cloud
  (Splunk Docs, 1 page)
• Installing a *nix Universal Forwarder
  (Splunk Docs, 6 pages)
• Installing a Windows Universal Forwarder
  (Splunk Docs, 7 pages)

• Getting Started with Splunk Search
  (Splunk Docs, 2 minute read)
• Splunk Search Tutorial
  (Splunk Docs, 3 minute read)
• The Basics of Splunk Search
  (Answers Community Best Practices)

• Splunk Cloud Search Reference
  (Splunk Docs, 2 minute read)
• Splunk Search Commands by Category
  (Splunk Docs, 10 minute read)
• Specifying Time Ranges
  (Splunk Docs, 5 minute read)

• Search Tips & Tricks Blog Post
  (blog, 5 minute read)
• Search Optimization
  (Answers Community Best Practices)

• Dashboards & Visualizations
  (Splunk Docs, 2 minute read)
• Dashboard Basics
  (Answers Community Best Practices)

• Dashboards Quick Reference Guide
  (PDF, 6 pages)
• SplunkStart — Pre-Built Dashboard Templates
  (blog, 15-minute read)
• Pre-Built Dashboards with the Splunk Start App
  (Splunkbase App)

• Dashboard Studio - Next Generation Dashboards
  (.conf session, 35:46)
• Advanced Dashboarding Tips and Techniques
  (.conf session, 11:09)

• Reports
  (Splunk Docs, 1 min read)
• Create and Edit Reports
  (Splunk Docs, 17 minute read)

• Getting Started with Alerts
  (Spunk Docs, 1 min read)
• The Alerting Workflow
  (Splunk Docs, 2 minute read)
• Addressing Alert Fatigue
  (.conf session, 14:31)

Cybersecurity use cases teach you to work with key data to streamline your security posture, mitigate business risk, and drive the modernization and optimization of your cyber defenses.

Managing Threats

Improving Security Operations

Meeting Compliance Standards

Discover additional methods for deploying, administering and extracting more value from your Security data.

Splunk Security Essentials: A free Splunk-built app that makes security easier, with four key pillars: to help you find the best content, learn how it works, deploy it successfully, and measure your success.

Splunk Enterprise Security: A premium security solution that is the nerve center of the security ecosystem, helping teams gain organization-wide visibility and security intelligence for continuous monitoring, incident response, and SOC operations.

IT operations use cases teach you to work with key data concerning uptime, performance, and response times of mission-critical applications and the underlying infrastructure they run on.

Digitizing the Business

Delivering Efficient IT Infrastructure

Discover additional methods for deploying, administering and extracting more value from your IT data.

IT Essentials Learn: A free Splunk-built app that makes it easier to find specific IT procedures that fit your environment, learn how they work, deploy them successfully, and measure your success.

IT Essentials Work: A free Splunk-built app that helps you get started monitoring and analyzing your IT infrastructure. It provides data integrations and investigation tools for operating systems, virtual infrastructures, and containers.

DevOps use cases teach you to work with key data for better management of complex, cloud-native environments, case management, and streamlined processes.

Monitor Software Development Systems

Discover additional methods for deploying, administering and extracting more value from your DevOps data.

Splunk On-Call: A hub for centralizing the flow of IT and DevOps system data throughout the incident lifecycle

Splunk Tech Talks: Deep-dives for technical practitioners

Splunk Product Guidance: A free Splunk-built app that provides robust guidance for numerous use cases and tasks, without navigating away from the product

Splunkbase: Splunkbase has 1000+ apps and add-ons from Splunk, our partners and our community. Find an app or add-on for most any data source and user need

Splunk Community: A group of customers, partners, and Splunk employees (Splunkers) who share their knowledge and experience with other users

Splunk Answers: Ask questions. Get answers. Find technical product solutions from passionate members of the Splunk community

Splunk Success Framework: Succeed as a program manager or organizational leader in implementing and maintaining a thriving Splunk program

Splunk Platform Fundamentals: Access task-oriented information to help you optimize Splunk configurations, data, and other inputs to achieve your use cases

Splunk Cloud Manual: The authoritative guide to Splunk Cloud, written by the Splunk docs team

Search Tutorial: Learn how to use the Search app to add data to your Splunk deployment, search the data, save the searches as reports, and create dashboards