Video description
Build a Splunk instance, and learn the concepts and terminology you need to produce insightful data reports and dashboard from data
About This Video
- Build and administer a Splunk system and use it to complete lab activities—no need for preexisting Splunk environments.
- Hands-on labs walk you through building environments, bringing in data, and ultimately using your own Splunk environment that you built yourself!
In Detail
Maybe you've heard about Splunk, but don't know how to use it to take control of big data? Have you used Splunk, but want to learn how to set it up and use it properly? If so, this course is for you.
In this course, you will work with Splunk from the ground up. You'll learn the basics of Splunk terminology, and how to use the Splunk web interface to find data. You'll also build your own Splunk environment, add data to the Common Information Model (CIM), create dashboards, and find events within data. Finally, you'll master advanced searching techniques that are especially useful to those in network, security, and system administration roles.
The course also covers the latest additions brought in for Splunk 8 and helps you quickly perform an upgrade. By the end of the course, you will be confident about using Splunk and will be well on the road to becoming a proficient Splunk architect and administrator as quickly as possible!
Audience
This course is for IT professionals and data analysts who want to get started with Splunk and rapidly take their skills to the point where they can get hands-on and fully proficient with its features and benefits.
Requirement: No prior knowledge of Splunk is needed for taking this course, but a Splunk account (free of charge) will be required for the lab activities. Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line will be helpful.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Chapter 1 : Introduction to Splunk
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Chapter 2 : Splunk Terminology
- Splunk - Splexicon
- What Data Looks Like in Splunk - Events
- Getting Data Out of Splunk - Search
- Saved Searches - Report
- Visualizing Data - Dashboard
- Splunk's Search Language - Search Processing Language
- What Type of Data Do We Have - Sourcetype
- How is Data Stored - Index
- Making Data Useful with Knowledge Objects and Fields
- Enriching Data - Lookup Table
- Chapter 3 : Data Onboarding
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Chapter 4 : Splunk Deployment Components
- Core Splunk Infrastructure - Indexes and Search Heads
- Supporting Infrastructure - Forwarders
- Supporting Infrastructure - Syslog Receiver
- Supporting Infrastructure - Deployment Server
- Splunk Licensing - How It Works and How to Investigate Your License Utilization
- Splunk Clustering - Building Splunk for Fault Tolerance
- Distributed Splunk Environments
- Splunk Apps - The Building Blocks of Any Splunk Deployment
- Chapter 5 : Data Normalization and Data Models
- Chapter 6 : Using Your Splunk Environment
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Chapter 7 : Visualizing Data
- Reporting Log Data - Tables
- Hands-On Lab: Tables - Displaying Search Results
- Advanced Searching Concepts - Chart - Graphing Search Results
- Advanced Searching Concepts - Timechart - Results Over Time
- Advanced Searching Concepts - Geostats and IP Location
- Advanced Searching Concepts: Eval - Manipulating and Reformatting Data
- Advanced Searching Concepts: Rename – Making Table Headers More Accessible
- Advanced Searching Concepts: Relative Time Syntax
- Advanced Searching Concepts: Search Performance - Gotchas to Avoid
- Advanced Searching Concepts: Time to Experiment – Expanding Your Splunk Knowledge
- Creating Splunk Dashboards
- Hands-On Lab: Dashboards
- Chapter 8 : Upgrading Splunk
Product information
- Title: Learning Splunk
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2020
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789801002
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