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Splunk 9: Optimizing Fields, Tags, and Event Types

Splunk knowledge is the cornerstone of its operations. This course will give you the knowledge and tools to help you learn more about this SIEM, the knowledge within it, and how to manipulate it to create efficiencies.

Intermediate
2h 14m
(6)

Created by Joe Abraham

Last Updated Aug 11, 2022

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Splunk 9: Optimizing Fields, Tags, and Event Types

Splunk knowledge is the cornerstone of its operations. This course will give you the knowledge and tools to help you learn more about this SIEM, the knowledge within it, and how to manipulate it to create efficiencies.

Intermediate
2h 14m
(6)

Created by Joe Abraham

Last Updated Aug 11, 2022

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Splunk is used for many different applications within our enterprise environments, enabling us to store, analyze, and track machine data and other information within our networks. Managing the knowledge and knowledge objects that it uses can be cumbersome. In this course, Splunk 9: Optimizing Fields, Tags, and Event Types, you'll learn the skills needed to optimize your Splunk environment. First, you'll explore knowledge and knowledge objects. After, you'll learn about Splunk fields and how to extract and use them. Then, you'll delve into creating and using tags and event types. You'll explore how to enrich Splunk via lookups as well. Finally, you'll use Splunk macros and create efficiencies within them. When you’re finished with this course, you'll have the knowledge to be able to optimize Splunk and share the efficiencies you create with your enterprise.

Splunk 9: Optimizing Fields, Tags, and Event Types
Intermediate
2h 14m
(6)
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Joe Abraham
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Joe is a Network Consulting Engineer and has worked in the IT industry since 2010. He has experience in teaching and mentoring IT professionals in both DoD environments and in the civilian sector, in both the networking and IT security fields.

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