By completing Search Expert 101, 102 & 103, you will be able to write efficient searches, perform correlations, create visualizations, and leverage subsearches and lookups. This course will also show you how to get started using your machine data to provide actionable reports and dashboards for your organization.
Splunk Search Expert Specialization
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Splunk Search Expert Specialization
Become a Search Expert and write efficient searches, perform correlations, create visualizations, and leverage sub-searches and lookups.
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Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
1 month at 10 hours a week
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
(220 reviews)
Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
1 month at 10 hours a week
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
- Big Data
- Data Wrangling
- Business Intelligence Software
- Business Intelligence
- Data Analysis
- Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
- Statistical Methods
- Data Manipulation
- Data Transformation
- Performance Tuning
- Business Analytics
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Processing
- Data Modeling
- Correlation Analysis
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Data Visualization Software
- Data Science
What’s included
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Taught in English
13 practice exercises
Advance your subject-matter expertise
- Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
- Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects
- Develop a deep understanding of key concepts
- Earn a career certificate from Splunk Inc.
Specialization - 3 course series
What you'll learn
Investigate data using Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and create searches, reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
Utilize temporary and persistent fields in searches and enrich data with fields from other data sources.
Create, managed, and schedule reports and alerts to automate processes and respond to incidents as they occur.
Visualize data to create charts, graphs, and maps and use visual formatting commands to curate appearance.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Splunk
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Query Languages
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Data Science
Category: Operational Data Store
Category: Business Analysis
Category: Dashboard
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Analysis
Category: Data Processing
Category: Business Intelligence Software
Category: Incident Response
Category: Big Data
Category: Incident Management
Category: Ad Hoc Reporting
What you'll learn
Filter data using time modifiers and time commands and use formatting functions to accommodate various time formats.
Calculate statistics using transforming commands and mathematical and statistical eval functions.
Compare, manipulate, and normalize data using several commands including the all-powerful eval command and an array of functions.
Enrich results with lookups and subsearches to correlate and filter data from multiple sources.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Splunk
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Big Data
Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Data Science
Category: Data Synthesis
Category: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Data Processing
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Wrangling
What you'll learn
Use specific commands to calculate co-occurrence between fields and analyze data from multiple datasets.
Understand how components of a search are broken down and processed across the Splunk data pipeline and how to troubleshoot searches.
Manipulate, evaluate, and analyze multivalue data and create multivalue fields in search with multivalue eval commands and functions.
Improve search performance by understanding search best practices, accelerating repots and data models to optimize frequently accessed data.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Splunk
Category: Correlation Analysis
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Transaction Processing
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Big Data
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Data Science
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Data Integration
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