Splunk Fundamentals & Enterprise Administration
Splunk Fundamentals & Enterprise Administration is a comprehensive, hands-on course designed to help learners build a strong foundation in Splunk and confidently manage enterprise-level deployments. Whether you're new to Splunk or looking to advance your operational expertise, this course provides the essential knowledge and practical skills needed to search, analyze, monitor, and administer machine data at scale.
Through structured lessons and real-world exercises, you will learn how to navigate Splunk’s interface, build powerful searches, create dashboards, manage configurations, and maintain a secure, high-performing Splunk environment. This course equips you with the capabilities required by security teams, IT operations, DevOps engineers, and enterprise administrators who depend on Splunk to drive data-driven insights and operational resilience.
What You’ll Learn
Core concepts of Splunk architecture, indexing, and data ingestion
Search fundamentals using the Splunk Processing Language (SPL)
Creating reports, alerts, visualizations, and interactive dashboards
Managing users, roles, and permissions in an enterprise Splunk environment
Best practices for data inputs, parsing, licensing, and forwarder configuration
Monitoring, scaling, and maintaining Splunk deployments for reliability and performance
Troubleshooting common issues and optimizing search efficiency
Who This Course Is For
IT professionals responsible for monitoring and operational analytics
Security analysts using Splunk for SIEM and threat detection
DevOps and infrastructure engineers managing large-scale data pipelines
Administrators and teams migrating to or expanding Splunk usage
Anyone looking to build strong, practical competency in Splunk administration
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Perform effective searches and build insightful visualizations
Administer Splunk at the enterprise level with confidence
Configure and monitor data ingestion pipelines
Manage Splunk resources, roles, and security settings
Maintain performance, reliability, and scalability across Splunk deployments