Course Overview
This "Fast Start" course introduces students to what machine data is and how to use Splunk to investigate and respond to incidents within an organization. Students will learn Splunk architecture, user roles, the Splunk Web interface, and how to use Splunk's Search Processing Language (SPL) to create searches, reports, dashboards, and visualizations. In the second half of the course, students will take deep dives into fields and visualizations and complete lab exercises. Topics from these courses will explore using fields, adding fields from other data sources, using commands to create charts and graphs, transforming geographic data into maps, and using visual formatting options to alter the look of statistical tables.
Prerequisites
None.