A Deep Dive into Splunk Web Interface

Last updated on Jun 19 2021
Anudhati Reddy

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A Deep Dive into Splunk Web Interface

Splunk – Interface

The Splunk web interface consists of all the tools you would like to look, report and analyze the info that’s ingested. an equivalent web interface provides features for administering the users and their roles. It also provides links for data ingestion and therefore the in-built apps available in Splunk.

The below picture shows the initial screen after your login to Splunk with the admin credentials.

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Administrator Link

The Administrator sink gives the choice to line and edit the small print of the administrator. we will reset the admin email ID and password using the below screen −

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Further from the administrator link, we will also navigate to the preferences option where we will set the zone and residential application on which the landing page will open after your login. Currently, it opened on the house page as shown below −

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Settings Link

This is a link which shows all the core features available in Splunk. for instance, you’ll add the lookup files and lookup definitions by choosing the lookup link.

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Search and Reporting Link

The search and reporting link takes us to the features where we will find the info sets that are available for searching the reports and alerts created for these searches. it’s clearly shown within the below screenshot −

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Splunk Administration

Overview of Splunk

  • Need for Splunk and its features
  • Splunk Products and their Use-Case
  • Splunk Components: Search Head, Indexer, Forwarder, Deployment Server & License Master
  • Splunk Licensing options

Splunk Architecture

  • Introduction to the architecture of Splunk

Splunk Installation

  • Download and Install Splunk
  • Configure Splunk
  • Creation of index

Splunk Configuration Files

  • Introduction to Splunk configuration files
  • Managing the. conf files

Splunk App and Apps Management

  • Splunk App
  • How to develop Splunk apps
  • Splunk App Management
  • Splunk App add-ons
  • App permissions and Implementation

User roles and authentication

  • Introduction to Authentication techniques
  • User Creation and Management
  • Splunk Admin Roles and Responsibilities
  • Splunk License Management

Splunk Index Management

  • Splunk Indexes
  • Segregation of the Splunk Indexes
  • Concept of Splunk Buckets and Bucket Classification
  • Creating New Index and estimating Index storage

Various Splunk Input Methods

  • Understanding the input methods
  • Agentless input types

Splunk Universal Forwarder

  • Universal Forwarder management
  • Overview of Splunk Universal Forwarder

Deployment Management in Splunk

  • Implementing the Splunk tool and deploying it on server
  • Splunk environment setup and Splunk client group deployment

Basic Production Environment

  • Universal Forwarder
  • Forwarder Management
  • Data management
  • Troubleshooting and Monitoring

Splunk Search Engine

  • Integrating Search using Head Clustering and Indexer Clustering
  • Conversion of machine-generated data to operational intelligence
  • Set up Dashboard, Charts and Reports

Search Scaling and Monitoring

  • Splunk Distributed Management Console for monitoring
  • Large-scale deployment and overcoming execution hurdles
  • Distributed search concepts
  • Improving search performance

Splunk Cluster Implementation and Index Clustering

  • Cluster indexing
  • Configuring the cluster behaviour
  • Index and search behaviour

Distributed Management Console

  • Introduction to Splunk distributed management console
  • How to deploy distributed search in Splunk environment

Splunk Developer

Splunk Development Concepts

  • Roles and Responsibilities of Splunk developer

Basic Searching

  • Basic Searching using Splunk query
  • Build Search, refine search and time range using Auto-complete
  • Controlling a search job and Identifying the contents of search

Using Fields in Searches

  • Using Fields in search
  • Deployment of Field Extractor and Fields Sidebar for REGEX field extraction

Splunk Search Commands

  • Search command
  • General search practices
  • Concept of search pipeline
  • Specify indexes in search
  • Deployment of the various search commands: Fields, Sort, Tables, Rename, rex and erex

Creating Reports and Dashboards

  • Creation of Reports, Charts and Dashboards
  • Editing Dashboards and Reports
  • Adding reports to dashboard

Creating Alerts

  • Create alerts
  • Understanding alerts
  • Viewing fired alerts

Splunk Commands

  • Splunk Search Commands
  • Transforming Commands
  • Reporting Commands
  • Mapping and Single Value Commands

Lookups

  • Concept of data lookups, examples and lookup tables

Automatic Lookups

  • Configuring and Defining automatic lookups
  • Deploying lookups in reports and searches

Splunk Queries

  • Splunk Queries
  • Splunk Query Repository

Splunk Search Processing Language

  • Learn about the Search Processing Language

Analyzing, Calculating and Formatting results

  • Calculating and analysing results
  • Value conversion
  • Conditional statements and filtering calculated search results

Splunk Reports and Visualizations

  • Explore the available visualizations
  • Create charts and time charts
  • Omit null values and format results

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