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Course Outline
Introduction and Infrastructure Profiling
- Overview of Splunk components and architecture
- Setting up the Splunk environment
- Profiling infrastructure requirements and resource allocation
- Basic deployment types (single instance vs. distributed environment)
- Initial setup and basic infrastructure configuration
Managing and Optimizing Splunk Architecture
- Indexing and data storage best practices
- Understanding forwarders, indexers, and search heads
- Load balancing and data distribution strategies
- Optimizing Splunk’s performance: tuning and scaling
- Configuring indexers and forwarders in a distributed setup
Data Administration and Inputs Management
- Managing and configuring data inputs from various sources
- Understanding parsing, event breaking, and line merging
- Configuring sourcetypes and data normalization
- Using transforms and props for data modification
- Setting up data inputs and configuring props/transforms
Advanced Troubleshooting Techniques
- Monitoring Splunk performance and identifying bottlenecks
- Common Splunk errors and how to resolve them
- Advanced search head clustering and indexer clustering troubleshooting
- Log monitoring and diagnostic tools
- Troubleshooting scenarios and log analysis
Leveraging Splunk’s Full Potential
- Advanced search commands and SPL optimization
- Building dashboards, alerts, and reports for strategic analysis
- Integrating third-party data and advanced data visualization
- Security and user management within Splunk
- Building an end-to-end monitoring dashboard and setting up automated alerts
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and systems
- Familiarity with logs and data formats
Audience
- IT administrators
- Infrastructure engineers
- Data analysts
28 Hours
Delivery Options
Private Group Training
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- Pre-course call with your trainer
- Customisation of the learning experience to achieve your goals -
- Bespoke outlines
- Practical hands-on exercises containing data / scenarios recognisable to the learners
- Training scheduled on a date of your choice
- Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
Private Group Prices RRP from £7600 online delivery, based on a group of 2 delegates, £2400 per additional delegate (excludes any certification / exam costs). We recommend a maximum group size of 12 for most learning events.
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Testimonials (3)
lots of pratical exercises
Marcin - Narodowy Bank Polski
Course - Splunk Data Administration
Labs, they were very interesting.
Aurora Sanz - ITALTEL SA
Course - Splunk Fundamentals
Setting up the universal forwarder and heavy forwarder is something I know for a fact I will use on my team.
