• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

After Splunk has collected data from numerous services, it is useful to have a means to search through it as well as create reports from it. Splunk provides services to allow searching log data and creating data models. Splunk can also generate reports, graphs, and dashboards to easily get an overview of your log data. In this course, you will learn how to search your data in Splunk. You'll also learn how to generate reports and create dashboards visualize your data.

Learning Objectives

Searching for Data in Splunk

  • start the course
  • prepare to run a search in Splunk
  • view the data sources available to you for searching
  • specify a time range for the results of your search
  • navigate the results of your Splunk search
  • control search job progress and mode in Splunk
  • navigate the search result tabs

Creating Dashboards and Saving Reports

  • save reports and view saved reports
  • find the saved reports and share them
  • save a search as a dashboard and edit panels in dashboards
  • work with Splunk dashboards
  • add an input to a dashboard

Splunk Data Models and Pivots

  • describe the data models and objects in Splunk
  • create a new data model in Splunk
  • edit and add model objects and root objects in Splunk
  • add the attributes that were automatically extracted to your Splunk data model object
  • add attributes from lookup tables to your Splunk data model object
  • create child objects under Splunk parent objects

Pivot Reports in Splunk

  • recognize the components of the pivot interface
  • create and save a Splunk Pivot
  • create and save a pivot table
  • create a Splunk pivot chart
  • save pivots to the dashboard

Practice: Searching in Splunk

  • use the Search features to find data

Framework Connections