What will you learn in Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin Course
Navigate Splunk’s architecture: forwarders, indexers, search heads, and deployment servers
Ingest, parse, and index machine data from diverse sources (logs, metrics, network traffic)
Craft powerful SPL (Search Processing Language) queries for ad hoc searches, statistical analysis, and visualizations
Build dashboards, reports, and alerts to monitor infrastructure, security, and application performance
Implement role-based access control, data retention policies, and best practices for scaling Splunk deployments
Integrate Splunk with external systems via REST APIs and develop custom Splunk apps
Program Overview
Module 1: Introduction to Splunk & Architecture
⏳ 1 week
Topics: Splunk components, data flow, licensing models, and deployment topologies
Hands-on: Install Splunk Enterprise, configure a universal forwarder, and verify data ingestion
Module 2: Data Onboarding & Field Extraction
⏳ 1 week
Topics: Source types, inputs.conf/transforms.conf, props.conf, and automated vs. manual field extractions
Hands-on: Ingest syslog, web server logs, and JSON data; create regex and Delimiter-based field extractions
Module 3: Search Fundamentals & SPL
⏳ 1 week
Topics: Core search commands (
search,stats,timechart), subsearches, event vs. transaction searchesHands-on: Write searches to compute metrics (e.g., top URLs, error rates) and transform results
Module 4: Advanced SPL & Reporting
⏳ 1 week
Topics:
eval,rex,join,mvexpand, lookups, and workflow actionsHands-on: Enrich data with CSV lookups, create calculated fields, and build ad hoc reports
Module 5: Dashboards & Visualizations
⏳ 1 week
Topics: Simple XML dashboards, panels, tokens, drilldowns, and advanced visualizations (charts/maps)
Hands-on: Design a service-monitoring dashboard with panels for latency, error rate, and capacity alerts
Module 6: Alerts & Scheduled Searches
⏳ 1 week
Topics: Alert types (real-time vs. scheduled), throttling, trigger actions (email, webhook, script)
Hands-on: Configure alerts for threshold breaches and automate incident creation via webhook integration
Module 7: Splunk Administration & Best Practices
⏳ 1 week
Topics: User roles/capabilities, index management, retention settings, clustering, and performance tuning
Hands-on: Set up indexer clustering, configure replication, and optimize search head performance
Module 8: Splunk Apps & Extensibility
⏳ 1 week
Topics: Installing and configuring Splunkbase apps, building custom apps, REST API usage, SDKs
Hands-on: Install the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure and develop a simple custom app
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Job Outlook
Splunk Administrator / Engineer: $90,000–$130,000/year — design and maintain Splunk infrastructure and searches
Security Analyst (SIEM Specialist): $95,000–$140,000/year — leverage Splunk for security monitoring and incident response
DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer: $100,000–$150,000/year — integrate Splunk for observability, alerting, and automated remediation
Splunk expertise is in high demand across finance, healthcare, retail, and government sectors for operational intelligence and security.
Specification: Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin
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