Splunk 101 for Beginners

Intro to Splunk: The Big Data Platform

Join us to learn how Splunk can provide out-of-the-box monitoring of your on-prem, cloud, and hybrid platforms.

Introducing the Splunk platform for machine data, find out how the digital exhaust created by systems, technologies, and infrastructure powering modern businesses is utilised to address big data problems.

Understand how the insights gained from machine data can support a wide range of use cases across an organisation and can be enriched with data from other sources. Explore how the enterprise machine data fabric shares and provides access to machine data across an organisation to facilitate key insights.

This virtual workshop will also cover Splunk Architecture by taking a look ‘under the hood’ of both clustered and single Splunk instances at the Forwarding, Indexing & Searching tiers as well as the instances that manage them. Master the back end of the Splunk UI and understand all the moving pieces that make up Splunk.

Agenda

• Somerford's Splunk offering and value-added services
• How Splunk's approach differs from other vendors and supports your strategic goals
• Introduction to Splunk & high-level overview of Splunk Architecture – how each part works
• Data input and index methods, and how Splunk indexes data
• Building searches and understanding how they work together
• Advanced searching, geolocation maps, and additional insights
• Using the new Dashboard Studio to align dashboards with business needs
• Bringing it all together & Summary
• Q&A

Who Should Attend

• IT Operations and Security teams seeking out-of-the-box monitoring solutions for diverse platforms.
• Data professionals aiming to enhance their skills in machine data handling, indexing, and analysis.
• Managers and analysts interested in exploring Splunk’s capability to support strategic goals through data insights.

Additional Information

• We encourage participants to join at the start for a full experience in the hands-on labs.
• Engagement and attentiveness are key to making the most of this session. Our hosts will guide you through each lab and address any questions you may have.
• Certification for participation is available upon successful completion of the workshop and hands-on labs.
• Those unable to complete the labs will have an opportunity to join future sessions to become certified.

If you have any problems or require support, please email: marketing@somerfordassociates.com