Splunk Hands-on - The Complete Data Analytics using Splunk

Learn how operational intelligence converts machine data and web server logs into real-time insights about customer and system behavior, enabling quicker decisions and improved business outcomes.

Learn how Splunk analyzes web, database, and network logs to diagnose outages, trace shopping cart errors to misconfigurations, and use dashboards for traffic and promo insights.

Explore how Splunk uses the map reduce principle to index events by timestamp, run distributed searches, and scale across multi-regional servers to identify patterns like failed password attempts.

install Splunk Enterprise on Windows by downloading the 64-bit installer from Splunk.com, creating a free account, accepting the license, and choosing customization to set the Splunk home under program files.

Download Splunk Enterprise from splunk.com, install on a local system or forward data from remote servers, then access the web interface on port 8000 and change the default admin password.

Learn basic Splunk configurations after installation, including changing the admin password and time zone. Configure default app and verify web and management ports (8000 and 8089) to ensure dashboard access.

Learn how to restart Splunk, modify configuration files, and manage core settings such as ports and the web console to keep Splunk reporting running smoothly.

Learn how to input data into a Splunk instance, including metadata such as timestamp, host, source, and source type, and use the upload, monitor, or forward options with sample data.

Learn to input and categorize data in splunk by configuring host, index, and source types, uploading logs from web servers and vendors, and verifying data in the search interface.

Navigate the Splunk enterprise interface, log in, and explore apps as bundles of configurations for use cases, including the search and reporting app and installing more apps for Cisco data.

In Splunk, search the data as individual events with timestamps and other metadata, using case-insensitive keywords, wildcards, and boolean operators (and, or, not) to refine results.

Learn to build Splunk searches using boolean operators, quotes for phrases, and implicit and between terms; use greater than, less than, not equal, and view events in reverse chronological order.

Learn to view Splunk events in reverse chronological order, using fields like host, source, and source type, and refine searches with selected vs interesting fields, index options, and timeline filters.

Learn how to format the timeline in Splunk, adjust linear or logarithmic scales, zoom and select ranges, and use the job inspector for performance tuning and sharing results.

Learn how Splunk treats fields as searchable key-value pairs and perform field-based searches, noting field discovery, interesting fields, and that keys are case sensitive while values are not.

Explore installing and switching apps in Splunk Enterprise, with a focus on the searching and reporting app and its navigation bar, plus running searches in the index=_internal data.

Explore how to tailor Splunk searches using fast, smart, and verbose modes, with flexible time ranges from date and time to millisecond precision, and review search history to optimize results.

Learn how to create and save Splunk reports that rerun searches, display tables and charts, drill into underlying events, and share or add reports to dashboards.

Learn to create tables and visualizations in Splunk using field side bar, byroade, and the Splunk search language command, including line, bar, and table visuals.

Explore creating and customizing visualizations in Splunk, including bar charts with data labels, axis labeling, drilldown interactions, heat maps with color density, and saving custom reports to dashboards.