The Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) is a language containing many commands, functions, arguments, etc., which are written to get the desired results from the datasets. For example, when you get a result set for a search term, you may further want to filter some more specific terms from the result set. For this, you need some additional commands to be added to the existing command. This is achieved by learning the usage of SPL.

Components of SPL

The SPL has the following components.

Search Terms − These are the keywords or phrases you are looking for.
Commands − The action you want to take on the result set like format the result or count them.
Functions − What are the computations you are going to apply on the results. Like Sum, Average etc.
Clauses − How to group or rename the fields in the result set.

Let us discuss all the components with the help of images in the below section −

Search Terms

These are the terms you mention in the search bar to get specific records from the dataset which meet the search criteria. In the below example, we are searching for records which contain two highlighted terms.

Commands

You can use many in-built commands that SPL provides to simplify the process of analysing the data in the result set. In the below example we use the head command to filter out only the top 3 results from a search operation.

Functions

Along with commands, Splunk also provides many in-built functions which can take input from a field being analyzed and give the output after applying the calculations on that field. In the below example, we use the Stats avg() function which calculates the average value of the numeric field being taken as input.

Clauses

When we want to get results grouped by some specific field or we want to rename a field in the output, we use the group by clause and the as clause respectively. In the below example, we get the average size of bytes of each file present in the web_application log. As you can see, the result shows the name of each file as well as the average bytes for each file.

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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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