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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- 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)
- 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)
These use cases suggest how to get data in, search for insights and fine-tune results from across your operations infrastructure using a single diagnostic platform.
- Application Lifecycle and Release Analytics (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Application Monitoring and Triage (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Cloud Monitoring (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Container Monitoring (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Infrastructure Troubleshooting (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Server and Operating System Monitoring (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Virtualization Infrastructure Troubleshooting (Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
These use cases come from Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk Security Essentials (SSE), and reference validated best practices published on Splunk Answers.
- Security Monitoring Examples(Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Advanced Threat Detection Examples(Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Insider Threat Detection Examples(Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Compliance Examples(Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- SOC Automation Examples(Splunk Docs & Answers Community)
- Splunk Security Essentials(SplunkBase App, free with demo data)
Use the Splunk best practices index to discover methods for deploying, administering and extracting more value from your data with Splunk Cloud. All of the best practices indexed here are gathered from Splunk customers, partners and employees.