Splunk 7 Essentials

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Splunk 7 Essentials



Transform machine data into powerful analytical intelligence with Splunk


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What you'll learn

✔Explore what role each feature plays while installing and configuring Splunk
✔Store event data in Splunk indexes, classify events into sources and add data fields
✔Learn and use Splunk search processing language commands and best practices
✔Create powerful real-time or user-input dashboards
✔Discover security and deployment considerations while creating a Splunk environment
✔Create your own forms for custom visualization

Course content
 48 lectures02:25:43
–Bringing in Data
37:29
Course Overview 
Preview04:05
Installation and Setup 
03:55
Introduction to Splunk 
11:40
Lesson Overview 
01:23
Splunk and Big Data 
03:24
Splunk Data Sources 
04:03
Creating Indexes 
01:53
Buckets 
01:45
Log Files as Data Input 
01:25
Splunk Events and Fields 
02:12
Extracting New Fields 
01:08
Lesson Summary 
00:36
Test your knowledge
4 questions

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Description
Splunk has evolved from a normal log monitoring tool to a de facto tool used in almost every enterprise, spanning from IT to security and even marketing.
This course will get you off to a steady start by helping you understand how to install Splunk and set up a sample machine data generator, called Even then. By learning how to create various reports, dashboards, and alerts, you’ll then be able to analyze and visualize your data with a completely new perspective. You’ll later explore how to model data for business users using Splunk's Pivot functionality. 

As you cover more chapters, you’ll get up to speed with testing Splunk's powerful HTTP Event Collector and send data to Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. After covering core Splunk functionality, you'll gain insights into some real-world best practices for using this technology. Throughout this fully updated edition, you’ll also come across ’Tips from the Fez’, which are additional comments and best practice recommendations from a member of the SplunkTrust Community.

By the end of this course, you’ll know exactly how to use the many features of Splunk to your advantage and transform your machine data into resourceful insights that positively affect business decisions.

About the Author
  • J-P Contreras, a Splunk-certified administrator and sales engineer, has delivered value-oriented data analytics and performance planning solutions for more than 20 years. He has built award-winning consulting teams to help companies turn data into analytical insights. He helps companies implement Splunk. He received his MBA in e-commerce from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, Chicago, in 2001. He trains in DePaul's Continuing Education Program and is a member of DePaul's Driehaus School of Business Advisory Board.

  • Erickson Delgado is an enterprise architect living in Orlando who loves to mine and analyze data. He began using Splunk in version 4.0 and has pioneered its use in his current work. He has worked with start-up companies in the Philippines to help build their open-source infrastructure. He has developed applications with Python and Node.js, is interested in Go, and loves recovering programming with C/C++. In recent years, he engaged himself in employing DevOps in his work. He blows off steam by saltwater fishing, mountain biking, crafting robots, and touring the country.

  • Betsy Page Sigman is a distinguished professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses in statistics, project management, databases, and electronic commerce for the last 16 years, and has been recognized with awards for teaching and service. She has also worked at George Mason University in the past. Her recent publications include a Harvard Business case study and a Harvard Business review article. Additionally, she is a frequent media commentator on technological issues and big data

  • Adam Frisbee is a 15 year IT veteran and holds an MS in Information Systems from the University of Utah, where he also teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Information Systems. His expertise is in cloud computing, VMware, Splunk, data warehousing, systems analysis and design, networking and servers, and university-level teaching.
Who this course is for:
  • If you are an application developer who wants to understand the operational intelligence of your enterprise, this course will show you the way.
  • You will also find this course useful if you’re just getting started with Splunk and want to become well versed with the services offered by Splunk 7. 







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