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LinkedIn Learning

Learning Splunk

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Make sense out of your systems data with Splunk. Learn how to analyze and search data from network, application, or database logs, and build reports and dashboards.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Learn Splunk
  • The learning environment
  • What is Splunk?
  • Install Splunk Free edition
1. Tour of Major Features
  • Home app
  • Set up your Splunk user
  • Search
  • Reporting
  • Add-ons
2. Search
  • Basics of the search interface
  • Simple filtering
  • Time
  • Understanding results: Fields
  • Complex filtering
  • Advanced search syntax
  • Challenge: Track down an issue
  • Solution: Track down an issue
3. Reporting and Dashboards
  • Reporting overview
  • Create a simple report
  • Visualize errors
  • Create a dashboard panel
4. Alerting
  • Alerting concepts
  • Create an alert
  • Advanced alerting
  • Challenge: Custom alert action
  • Solution: Advanced alerting
5. Practical Splunk
  • Web app monitoring challenges
  • Install the universal forwarder
  • Configure remote data
  • Using multiple data streams
  • Beyond logs
  • Visualizing and alerts
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Josh Samuelson

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