Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise 8.2

CODE: SPL_TSE

LENGTH: 16 Hours (2 days)

PRICE: kr10 150,00

Description

This 2-virtual day course is designed for Splunk administrators. It covers topics and techniques for troubleshooting a standard Splunk distributed deployment using the tools available on Splunk Enterprise

This lab-oriented class is designed to help you gain troubleshooting experience before attending more advanced courses. You will debug a distributed Splunk Enterprise environment using the live system.


This course does not cover the issues surrounding Splunk Cloud, Splunk Clusters, or Splunk premium apps.

Objectives

  • Splunk Troubleshooting Methods and Tools
  • Indexing Problems
  • Input Configuration Problems
  • Deployment Problems
  • License, Upgrade, and User Management Problems
  • Search Management Problems
  • User Search Problems

Prerequisites

To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following courses:

  • Splunk Fundamentals 1
  • Splunk Fundamentals 2

OR the following single-subject courses:

  • What Is Splunk?
  • Intro to Splunk
  • Using Fields
  • Scheduling Reports and Alerts
  • Visualizations
  • Leveraging Lookups and Subsearches
  • Search Under the Hood
  • Introduction to Knowledge Objects
  • Creating Knowledge Objects
  • Enriching Data with Lookups
  • Data Models
  • Introduction to Dashboards
  • Students should also have completed the following courses:

    • Splunk System Administration
    • Splunk Data Administration
    • Programme

      Module 1 – Splunk Troubleshooting Methods and Tools

      • Describe the Splunk troubleshooting approach
      • List Splunk diagnostic resources and tools
      • Create and splunk a diag
      • Use RapidDiag

      Module 2 – Indexing Problems

      • Discover Splunk deployment topology and its server roles
      • Identify where to check the Index-time pipeline status
      • Use the metrics.log to clarify the index-time problem
      • Module 3 – Input Configuration Problems

        • Data input issues
        • Troubleshooting inputs with Monitoring Console
        • Module 4 – Deployment Problems

          • Deployment server issues
          • Forwarding and receiving issues
          • Module 5 – License, Upgrade, and User Management Problems

            • Installation issues
            • Upgrade considerations
            • Splunk licensing issues
            • Splunk roles and user management issues
            • Module 6 – Search Management Problems

              • Troubleshoot distributed search issues
              • Identify job scheduling issues
              • Learn to diagnose crashing problems
              • Describe how to prioritize resources for critical Splunk processes
              • Module 7 – User Search Problems

                • Identify the types of search problems
                • Isolate and troubleshoot search problems
                • Session Dates