Splunkable: Splunk Architecture & Cluster Administration is an advanced, hands-on course designed for professionals who need to architect, deploy, and manage clustered Splunk environments. This training dives deep into Splunk’s distributed components, indexer clustering, search head clustering, and end-to-end architecture design to ensure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence across enterprise deployments.
Through real-world scenarios and guided labs, you will learn how to design high-availability architectures, configure cluster components, manage replication and search factors, optimize performance, and troubleshoot complex distributed environments. Whether you're expanding an existing Splunk deployment or building a new cluster from the ground up, this course gives you the technical expertise to operate Splunk at enterprise scale.
What You’ll Learn
Core principles of Splunk distributed architecture
Indexer clustering concepts, roles, and configuration
Search head clustering for high availability and load balancing
Cluster manager configuration and lifecycle operations
Data replication, replication factor, search factor, and bucket management
Forwarder topology best practices for large-scale deployments
Monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting clustered environments
Strategies for scaling Splunk across multi-site or hybrid infrastructures
Who This Course Is For
Splunk architects and senior administrators
IT operations engineers overseeing large Splunk environments
Security teams managing Splunk as a scalable SIEM
DevOps professionals responsible for distributed logging architectures
Anyone seeking deeper expertise in Splunk cluster management
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Design and implement scalable Splunk architectures using clustering best practices
Configure and manage indexer clusters and search head clusters
Maintain data consistency and high availability across distributed environments
Optimize performance, monitor health, and troubleshoot cluster issues
Build an enterprise-ready Splunk deployment capable of supporting heavy workloads