- Free Courses
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Learning Paths
- Courses for Users
- Courses for Splunk Administrators
- Courses for Splunk Cloud Customers
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Courses for Splunk Architects
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Administering Splunk Enterprise Security
- Courses for App Developers
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Courses for Enterprise Security Administrators
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Administering Splunk Enterprise Security
- Courses for Enterprise Security End-Users
- Courses for IT Service Intelligence Administrators
- Courses for IT Service Intelligence End-Users
- Courses for Phantom Customers
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Certification Tracks
- Splunk Core Certified User
- Splunk Core Certified Power User
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
- Splunk Certified Developer
- Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin
- Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin
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Splunk Core Certified Consultant
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Practical Lab
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
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Courses
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Advanced Dashboards and Visualizations
- Building Splunk Apps
- Splunk for Analytics and Data Science
- Splunk Infrastructure Overview
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Splunk Cloud Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Splunk Enterprise Practical Lab
- Developing with Splunk's REST API
- Administering Splunk Enterprise Security
- Using Splunk Enterprise Security
- Implementing Splunk IT Service Intelligence
- Using Splunk IT Service Intelligence
- Splunk User Behavior Analytics
- Administering Phantom
- Developing Phantom Playbooks
- Working with Metrics in Splunk
- Implementing Splunk SmartStore
- Splunk Workload Management
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Videos
- All Videos
- Splunk Cloud Tutorial
- Installing Splunk Enterprise on Linux
- Installing Splunk Enterprise on Windows
- Getting Data In to Splunk Enterprise (Linux)
- Getting Data In (Windows)
- Getting Data In with Forwarders
- Basic Search in Splunk Enterprise
- Create a Dashboard in Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Certification Candidate Journey
- Creating Alerts in Splunk Enterprise
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- Certification Exams
- Program Guide + FAQ
- Download Fact Sheet
Course Description
3-day (12-hour) hands-on course prepares administrators to manage users and get data in Splunk Cloud. Topics include data inputs and forwarder configuration, data management, user accounts, and basic monitoring and problem isolation. The focus in this class is the knowledge, best practices, and configuration details for Splunk Cloud.
*Search head clustered deployment topics will NOT be covered in this class.
Instructor-led Training Schedule
Required:
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
Strongly Recommended:
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Splunk Cloud overview
- Splunk index management
- Users, roles, and authentication
- Universal forwarder
- Forwarder management
- Data inputs in detail
- Event Parsing with data preview
- Manipulating raw data
- Installing apps
- Problem isolation and Splunk Cloud support
- Describe Cloud topology
- Describe tasks managed by the Splunk cloud administrator
- List the primary differences between Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise
- Define a Splunk Index
- Create indexes in cloud
- Delete data from an index
- Monitor indexing activities
- Administer Splunk user roles
- Integrate Splunk with LDAP, Active Directory, or SAML
- Enable Duo security Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)
- List Splunk input options
- Describe the basic settings for an input
- Review Splunk configuration files
- Use a test environment to verify data
- List Splunk forwarder types
- Describe the role of forwarders
- Configure a forwarder to Splunk Cloud
- Test the forwarder connection
- Describe optional forwarder settings
- Describe Splunk Deployment Server
- Explain the use of forwarder management
- Configure forwarders to be deployment clients
- Managing forwarders using deployment apps
- Describe the Splunk process for inputting data
- Create file and directory monitor inputs
- Use optional settings for monitor inputs
- Create network (TCP and UDP) inputs
- Create a basic scripted input
- Describe optional settings for network inputs
- Identify Windows input types and uses
- Use the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to get data into Splunk
- Describe the default processing that occurs during the input phase
- Configure input phase options, such as sourcetype fine-tuning and character set encoding
- Describe the default processing that occurs during parsing
- Optimize and configure event line breaking
- Explain how timestamps and time zones are extracted or assigned to events
- Use Data Preview to validate event creation during the parsing phase
- Explain how data transformations are defined and invoked
- Use transformations with props.conf and transforms.conf to modify raw data
- Use SECCMD to modify raw data
- Describe self-service app installs vs. manual app installs
- Provide steps to install apps
- Describe how apps are managed
- Isolate problems before contacting Splunk Cloud Support
- Define the process for working with Splunk Cloud Support