This course serves as the foundation for all other Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring courses. It is targeted towards DevOps/SRE/Observability teams, Senior On-call Engineers, Onboarding and Monitoring Strategists and Developers. This 1-virtual day course provides a fundamental understanding of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring concepts such as the Splunk IM data model and different types of metadata. See how you can search for metrics, find more information about a metric, visualize and alert on metrics. Learn to use appropriate rollups, interpret chart data based on chart resolution, rollups and analytic functions. All concepts are taught using lectures and scenario-based hands-on activities.

• Define components of the Splunk IM data model
• Discriminate between types of metadata
• Create dashboards using best practices
• Find and visualize metrics
• Alert on metrics
• Correctly interpret data in charts based on rollups, analytic functions and chart resolution

Introduction to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (eLearning)

Module 1 -Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Data Model

• Define components of the Splunk IM Data Model

• Metrics, MTS, datapoints
• Data resolution, rollups

• List the components of a datapoint

Module 2 – Types of Splunk IM Metadata

Module 3 – Finding and Visualizing Metrics

Module 4 – Using Rollups and Analytic Functions

Module 5 – Alerting on Metrics