Splunk offers its Splunk fundamentals One course for free on their site. If you are looking to stack your resume with skills that are in demand look no further. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to become certified. You will also get course advice and information about how to do well.
Table of Contents
The Course Description
From the site,
This course teaches you how to search and navigate in Splunk, use fields, get statistics from your data, create reports, dashboards, lookups, and alerts. Scenario-based examples and hands-on challenges will enable you to create robust searches, reports, and charts. It will also introduce you to Splunk’s datasets features and Pivot interface.
What’s in the Course
According to the site’s course description the format is laid out in these sections:
- Introduction to Splunk’s interface
- Basic searching
- Using fields in searches
- Transforming commands
- Creating reports and dashboards
- Creating and using lookups
- Scheduled ReportsAlerts
What to Expect from Splunk Fundamentals One
- Splunk core commands
- dedup – remove duplicates from search results
- fields – removes specified fields from search results
- inputlookup – search a lookup table e.g. | inputlookup sampledata.csv ( | “pipe” pipes are used to filter results)
- What Apps are in Splunk.
- How to upload data to Splunk.
- What Indexers, Search Heads, and Data Forwarders are and how they deal with different data types.
- Creating a Splunk account which grants access to Splunk resources like Q&A Forums and Free Splunk.
Getting Started
To take the course you will need to do a couple things first.
- Download and install Splunk! This is required. Need help? Follow this tutorial.
- Follow the link to the training.
- Create an account.
- Register for the course using the eLearning option.
- Add the course to cart.
- Checkout.
- Enter your account information in the required fields.
- Agree to the terms.
- Check your email for a registration confirmation and link to the eLearning tool.
note:
There are some things you need to be aware of before considering taking the course. Once you start the course, you only have 30 days to complete it. And you can only complete the training once. What does this mean?
According to the license agreement,
access to eLearning courses expires 30 days from the date of registration and access cannot be extended or reset. eLearning courses can only be completed once. (Splunk recommends registering for one eLearning class at a time)
What to Do Next
Once you get your email confirmation for your registration, you are directed to launch the training course using the Splunk eLearning test tool. Go ahead and launch the tool. Remember once you hit Start you only have 30 days to finish.