Practical Splunk: Build Data Intelligence through SPL, Reports, and Dashboards

Course details

This course provides you with a functional, hands-on overview on how to create data intelligence from machine-generated data using Splunk Dashboard Studio to display it. With easy-to-follow examples and demonstrations, instructor Karun Subramanian takes you through some of the most important Splunk functionalities, such as using the field extraction wizard, grouping events, using external lookups, creating statistics, configuring alerts, scheduling searches, and developing dashboards. Along the way, you’ll gain valuable skills and technical know-how for writing and understanding complex queries, improving dashboard performance, and more.

Learning objectives
Conduct searches using the Search Processing Language (SPL).
Group and correlate events.
Perform statistical calculations from search results.
Visualize data using charts.
Create reports, alerts, and dashboards.
Use lookups to enhance search results.
Create data dashboards in Splunk Dashboard Studio.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Practical Splunk for beginners - Introduction

1. The Splunk Platform

02 - Learning objectives
03 - Why Splunk
04 - Components of Splunk
05 - Uses of Splunk
06 - Installing and setting up Splunk
07 - What's new in Splunk 9

2. Search Processing Language

08 - Learning objectives
09 - The Splunk search interface
10 - Structure of an SPL query
11 - Running basic searches

3. Creating Statistics

12 - Learning objectives
13 - The stats command
14 - The eval command
15 - The timechart command

4. Fields and Field Extractions

16 - Learning objectives
17 - Fields introduction
18 - Using the field extraction wizard
19 - Using the rex command

5. Grouping Events and Using Lookups

20 - Learning objectives
21 - Using the transaction command
22 - Using join and append
23 - Using lookups

6. Creating Reports and Alerts

24 - Learning objectives
25 - Creating reports
26 - Saving and scheduling reports
27 - Creating alerts

7. Creating Dashboards

28 - Learning objectives
29 - Creating basic dashboards
30 - Configuring drilldown
31 - Adding input panels

8. Using Splunk Dashboard Studio

32 - Learning objectives
33 - Using Splunk Dashboard Studio
34 - Creating a dashboard using Splunk Dashboard Studio
35 - Adding dashboard interactions
36 - Using data sources

Conclusion

37 - Practical Splunk for beginners - Summary