Splunk Foundation Fast Start (SF-FS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Topic 1 – What is Splunk?

• What is Machine Data?
• Operational Intelligence
• What is Splunk?

Topic 2 – Intro to Splunk

• Intro to Splunk
• Using Splunk
• Using Search
• Exploring Events
• Search Processing Language
• What are Commands?
• What are Knowledge Objects?
• Creating Reports and Dashboards

Topic 3 – Using Fields

• What are Fields?
• What is Field Discovery?
• Using Fields in Searches
• Comparing Temporary versus Persistent Fields
• Enriching Data

Topic 4 – Visualizations

• Formatting Commands
• Visualizing Data
• Generating Maps
• Single Value Visualizations
• Visual Formatting