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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Skills     Cloud Computing and Virtualization     CloudOps     Splunk in the Cloud

Splunk is a horizontal application with many possible use cases. In this course, you'll explore the core Splunk products, features, and pricing options that can help achieve CloudOps observability, discover problems, collect and index data, gain business-critical insights, and implement a visualization service for cloud operational intelligence.


Additionally, you'll examine the benefits of using Splunk Cloud, the data ingestion concepts used by this product, and its approach to identifying, investigating, and resolving critical issues. You'll also recognize the infrastructure monitoring capabilities provided by Splunk App for Infrastructure.


Moving on, you'll learn to use Splunk to explore, categorize, and analyze data and generate Sparklines. You'll navigate Splunk Cloud's primary interface. You'll ingest, organize, and mine data in Splunk to glean operational intelligence. And lastly, you'll integrate VictorOps with Splunk.



Objectives

CloudOps Machine Data Analytics: Splunk for CloudOps

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • describe the features of Splunk that help implement observability solutions for cloud operations
  • recognize the capabilities of Splunk that help discover problems and use operational intelligence insights to facilitate business productivity
  • list the core products and developer tools provided by Splunk that can be used to collect and index data as well as implement visualization services for operational intelligence
  • recognize the various flavors of Splunk along with the benefits of using Splunk Cloud
  • use Splunk to explore, categorize, analyze data, and generate Sparklines to depict existing patterns
  • name the data sources that can be used with Splunk and outline the basic data model that helps define an internal dataset and how data is indexed
  • illustrate how the primary interface of Splunk Cloud is used for searching, problem investigation, reporting on results, and administrating Splunk deployments
  • describe the essential data ingestion (collection) concepts used by Splunk Cloud to make data available for insight and analysis
  • demonstrate how to ingest data in Splunk to organize and mine data and generate operational intelligence
  • recognize the role played by Splunk to improve application delivery via the use of CloudOps practices
  • compare the concepts of incident and problem management and identify the role played by VictorOps and Splunk to manage incidents and problems in the DevOps lifecycle
  • integrate VictorOps with Splunk to manage incidents and build reports with the required or desired insights
  • describe the critical challenges of monitoring multi-cloud environments and the approach adopted by Splunk to identify, investigate, and resolve critical issues
  • recognize the key infrastructure monitoring capabilities provided by Splunk App for Infrastructure (SAI)
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course