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Getting Started with Splunk

Getting Started with Splunk. Name Title. Date. Agenda. Getting Started (5 minutes) Splunk at <Your Company> (5-10 minutes) Orientation (15-20 minutes) Getting Help (5-10 minutes) Q & A (10-15 minutes). Introductions. Who are you? What is your role? Where does your job start and end?

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Getting Started with Splunk

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  1. Getting Startedwith Splunk NameTitle Date

  2. Agenda • Getting Started (5 minutes) • Splunk at <Your Company> (5-10 minutes) • Orientation (15-20 minutes) • Getting Help (5-10 minutes) • Q & A (10-15 minutes)

  3. Introductions • Who are you? • What is your role? • Where does your job start and end? • Who’s in the audience? • Have the audience introduce themselves? • How much experience do they have with Splunk? • What do they hope to gain from the workshop?

  4. Getting Started • How to access Splunk? • <Splunk URL> • <Credentials: LDAP or other?> • How to request access? • What is the new user onboarding process? • You have a process, right? ;) • What data is currently collected and available? • What is the new data onboarding process? • Please say you have a process

  5. Splunk Environment • How is Splunk deployed? • Present a diagram of your Splunk deployment (example on next slide) • Splunk can be downloaded free and sets up in <5 minutes • Free version can be used as sandboxes to learn Splunk or test new configuration • Free version for home/personal use

  6. <Your Company> Splunk ArchitectureLicense Capacity: 500 GB/day Distributed Search and Summary Indexing Tier Indexing Tier x5 … Forwarders or Forwarding Tier proxy laptops desktops syslog firewall config applications servers/VMs Data Sources

  7. <Your Company> Use Cases Who is using Splunk (individual users or teams)? What are they doing with Splunk? Highlight success stories, cool challenges solved or interesting questions answered by Splunk. Example: our CIO is able to track productivity using Splunk dashboards of web proxy data. Poll the audience for their use cases.

  8. Orientation • Provide a walk through of the Splunk UI • Show the Launcher • Show the Getting Started App • Show the Search App • cover the data (sourcetypes, hosts, sources) • run a simple search with wildcards/booleans • explain the timeline, search controls, filters • explain the time range picker (historic vs. real-time searches) • find the search in the Jobs manager • introduce search commands • explain fields and/or demo the interactive field extractor • show how to save and schedule searches • build a simple report • make a simple dashboard • Ask the audience for search ideas or questions they want answered

  9. Orientation • Mention the existence of the CLI and REST APIs • Show other cool Apps • Show Apps you have installed • Example: use the GoogleMaps App to geolocate events • Download more from SplunkBase • Users can also build their own

  10. Getting Help Is there an internal wiki or website with more information? Is there an internal mailing list users can ping? Is there an internal chat list? Are there team experts who can be leveraged?

  11. Technical Help: Splunk Answers • http://answers.splunk.com • Community driven • Splunk supported • Knowledge exchange • Q & A

  12. Technical Help: Splunk Documentation • http://docs.splunk.com • Official Product Docs • Wiki and community topics • Updated daily • Can be printed to .PDF

  13. Splunk Education • Develop internal Splunk experts • Recommended for New Users • Using Splunk • Searching & Reporting • Recommended for Admins • Administering • Deploying Splunk • Recommended for UI/Dashboard Developers • Developing Apps

  14. Splunk Events • Splunk User Groups • Community driven • Bootstrapped by Splunk • Occur every 2-3 months • Hosted locally • Splunk Live! • Worldwide customer events • Technical workshops for beginners and power users • Local Events held in LA, OC, San Diego, Phoenix yearly • Splunk User Conference • August 15-17 in San Francisco, CA • 5 tracks, more than 40 sessions, the smartest Splunk users together • May 13th early registration promotion www.splunk.com > Events

  15. Other Ways to Get Help

  16. Q&A • Questions? • Looking Ahead • Was the workshop useful? • Get ideas for future workshops • Recruit someone in the audience to host a future workshop • Consider hosting a Search/Story of the Month contest

  17. Thank You :)

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