Splunk Series III: System Administrator Class (File Structure, Settings and CLI)
Splunk SPLUNK_HOME directory layout, etc/system/default vs local precedence, conf-file merging, and essential splunk CLI commands for administrators.
Posts tagged: Machine-Data
Splunk Series III: System Administrator Class (Installation and Recommendations)
Splunk Enterprise install on Linux and Windows: ulimit tuning, THP disable, indexer and search-head sizing, and production-ready admin class advice.
Splunk Series III: System Administrator Class (Splunk Components, Processes and Installation)
Splunk admin notes — search heads, indexers, forwarders, deployment server roles — and the planning steps required before a production install.
Splunk Series III: System Administrator Class (Splunk Deployment)
Splunk Certified Architect prep — System Admin class topics: license management, configuration files, indexers, user management, and distributed search.
Splunk Series II: Correlating Events
Correlate events in Splunk using transactions — group related events with maxspan, maxpause, startswith, endswith — and when to use stats instead.
Splunk Series II: Filtering/Formatting Data
Filter and format Splunk data with eval, search, and where commands — calculate field values, apply conditional logic, and clean up report output.
Splunk Series II: Fundamentals II
Splunk Fundamentals 2 topics — transforming commands, transactions, knowledge objects, field aliases, tags, macros, data models, and the CIM.
Splunk Series II: Knowledge Objects and Managing Fields
Splunk knowledge objects explained — field extractions, event types, lookups, workflow actions, tags, and data models for sharing reusable assets.
Splunk Series II: Visualizations
Splunk visualization types — line charts, bubble charts, cluster maps, choropleth maps, single-value panels — turning search results into dashboards.
Splunk Series: Basic Search
Get started with Splunk basic search — using the search assistant, pipes, commands, and reading results in the SPL editor to query indexed data fast.