Splunk Fundamentals 1

Splunk Fundamentals 1

 
Course Description
 
This course teaches you how to search and navigate within Splunk, work with fields, generate statistics from your data, and build reports, dashboards, lookups, and alerts. Through scenario‑based examples and hands‑on challenges, you will learn to create effective searches, insightful reports, and clear visualizations. The course also introduces Splunk’s dataset features and the Pivot interface, enabling you to analyze and present data with greater flexibility.

Course Topics

  • Introduction to Splunk's interface
  • Basic searching
  • Using fields in searches
  • Search fundamentals
  • Transforming commands
  • Creating reports and dashboards
  • Creating and using lookups
  • Scheduled ReportsAlerts

Course Objectives

Module 1 - Introducing Splunk

  • Understand the uses of Splunk
  • Define Splunk Apps
  • Learn basic navigation in Splunk

Module 2 - Searching

  • Run basic searches
  • Use autocomplete to help build a search
  • Set the time range of a search
  • Identify the contents of search results
  • Refine searches
  • Use the timeline
  • Work with events
  • Control a search job
  • Save search results

Module 3 - Using Fields in Searching

  • Understand fields
  • Use fields in searches
  • Use the fields sidebar
  • Use search modes (fast, verbose, and smart)

Module 4 - Creating Reports and Dashboards

  • Save a search as a report
  • Edit reports
  • Create reports that display statistics (tables)
  • Create reports that display visualizations (charts)
  • Create a dashboard
  • Add a report to a dashboard
  • Edit a dashboard

Module 5 - Splunk's Search Language Fundamentals

  • Understand the search pipeline
  • Understand search syntax concepts
  • Use the following commands to perform searches: tables, rename, fields, dedup, sort

Module 6 - Using basic Transforming Commands

  • The top command
  • The rare command
  • The stats command

Module 7 - Creating and Using Lookups

  • Describe lookups
  • Examine a lookup file example
  • Create a lookup file and create a lookup definition
  • Configure an automatic lookup
  • Use the lookup in searches

Module 8 - Creating Alerts and Scheduled Reports

  • Describe scheduled reportsC
  • Configure scheduled reports
  • Describe alerts
  • Create alerts
  • View fired alerts

Module 9 - Creating and Using Macros

  • Describe macros
  • Create and use a basic macro
  • Define arguments and variables for a macro
  • Add and use arguments with a macro

Module 10 - Creating Data Models

  • Describe the relationship between data models and pivot
  • Identify data model attributes
  • Create a data modelUse a data model in pivot