Introduction to Splunk
​​ "Hands On" Workshop
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Introduction to Splunk "Hands on" Workshop
inc. Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise 

Dates:
5th February 2019, 10am - 2pm
Pure Offices Reading, The Blade, Abbey Street, RG1 3BA
5th March 2019, 10am - 1pm
Virtual Introduction to Splunk Workshop
9th April 2019, 10am - 2pm
Arrow Offices, 6 Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2SU
Whatever you call it, machine data is one of the most underused and undervalued assets of any organisation. But some of the most important insights that you can gain—across IT and the business—are hidden in this data: where things went wrong, how to optimize the customer experience, the fingerprints of fraud. All of these insights can be found in the machine data that’s generated by the normal operations of your organization.

Splunk offers the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Splunk gives you insights that can help make your company more productive, profitable, competitive and secure.

Machine data is valuable because it contains a definitive record of all the activity and behavior of your customers, users, transactions, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices. It includes configurations, data from APIs, message queues, change events, the output of diagnostic commands, call detail records and sensor data from industrial systems, and more.

The challenge with leveraging machine data is that it comes in a dizzying array of unpredictable formats, and traditional monitoring and analysis tools weren’t designed for the variety, velocity, volume or variability of this data.

Join us to find out about the Splunk platform for machine data—the digital exhaust created by the systems, technologies and infrastructure powering modern businesses—to address big data, IT operations, security and analytics use cases. The insights gained from machine data can support any number of use cases across an organization and can also be enriched with data from other sources. The enterprise machine data fabric shares and provides access to machine data across the organisation to facilitate these insights - Operational Intelligence.

​Our introduction to Splunk will cover:-
Feature 
Description
Indexing
Splunk indexes machine data. This includes data streaming from packaged and custom applications, application servers, web servers, databases, networks, virtual machines, telecoms equipment, operating system, sensors and so on, that make up your IT infrastructure.  The maximum indexing volume depends on the Splunk Enterprise License.
Search
Search is the primary way users navigate data in Splunk Enterprise. You can write a search to retrieve events from an index, use statistical commands to calculate metrics and generate reports, search for specific conditions within a rolling time window, identify patterns in your data, predict future trends, and so on. Searches can be saved as reports and used to power dashboard panels. 
Alerts
Alerts are triggered when conditions are met by search results for both historical and real-time searches. Alerts can be configured to trigger actions such as sending alert information to designated email addresses, post alert information to an RSS feed, and run a custom script, such as one that posts an alert event to syslog.
Reports
Reports are saved searches and pivots. You can run reports on an ad hoc basis, schedule them to run on a regular interval, set a scheduled report to generate alerts when the results of their runs meet particular conditions. Reports can be added to dashboards as dashboard panels. 
Dashboards
Dashboards are made up of panels that contain modules such as search boxes, fields, charts, tables, forms, and so on. Dashboard panels are usually hooked up to saved searches or pivots. They can display the results of completed searches as well as data from backgrounded real-time searches.