Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
Duration : 2 Days (16 Hours)
Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise Course Overview:
This course is designed for Splunk administrators and focuses on troubleshooting techniques for a standard Splunk distributed deployment. It provides hands-on experience in debugging distributed Splunk Enterprise environments using real systems. Please note that this course does not address issues related to Splunk Cloud, Splunk Clusters, or Splunk premium apps.
Intended Audience:
- Splunk Administrators
- Individuals responsible for troubleshooting Splunk distributed deployments
Learning Objectives of Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise:
- Splunk Troubleshooting Methods and Tools
- Indexing Problems
- Input Configuration Problems
- Deployment Problems
- License, Upgrade, and User Management Problems
- Search Management Problems
- User Search Problems
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 the Monitoring Console
Module 4 – Deployment Server and Forwarding Issues
- Deployment Server Issues
- Forwarding and Receiving Issues
Module 5 – Indexer Cluster Management Administration
- Peer Offline and Decommission
- Master App Bundles
- Indexer Cluster Storage Utilization Options
- Site Mapping
- Monitoring Console for Indexer Cluster Environment
Module 6 – License, Upgrade, and User Management Problems
- Installation Issues
- Upgrade Considerations
- Splunk Licensing Issues
- Splunk Roles and User Management Issues
Module 7 – Search Head Management Problems
- Troubleshoot Distributed Search Issues
- Identify Job Scheduling Problems
- Learn to Diagnose Crashing Problems
- Describe How to Prioritize Resources for Critical Splunk Processes
Module 8 – KV Store Collection and Lookup Management
- Identify the Types of Search Problems
- Isolate and Troubleshoot Search Problems
Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise Course Prerequisites:
To be successful in this course, students should have a solid understanding of the following prerequisite courses:
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
Or, they should have completed the following single-subject courses:
- What is Splunk?
- Intro to Splunk
- Using Fields
- Scheduling Reports and Alerts
- Visualizations
- Leveraging Lookups and Sub-searches
- Search Under the Hood
- Introduction to Knowledge Objects
- Creating Knowledge Objects
- Enriching Data with Lookups
- Data Models
- Introduction to Dashboards
Additionally, students should have completed the following courses:
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
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- Team building
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- Practice Labs.
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- Access to the recordings of your class sessions for 90 days.
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