Getting help with Infrastructure Monitoring
Training
Good courses to take to start learning Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring include the following:
Course | Persona | Price | Description |
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Introduction to Splunk Observability |
SREs and DevOps Developers |
Free | This module distinguishes between monitoring and observability and the requirements for an observable system. Learn about the components in Splunk Observability Cloud. |
Introduction to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring |
SREs and DevOps Developers |
Free | This course will give you an overview of the following topics: Getting Data into Infrastructure Monitoring, Data Model, Built-in Content, Dashboards and Dashboard Groups, Charts, and Detectors. |
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Fundamentals |
SREs and DevOps Developers |
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This course serves as the foundation for all other Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring courses. It is targeted towards DevOps/SRE/Observability teams, Senior On-call Engineers, Onboarding and Monitoring Strategists and Developers. This 1-virtual day course provides a fundamental understanding of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring concepts such as the Splunk IM data model and different types of metadata. See how you can search for metrics, find more information about a metric, visualize and alert on metrics. Learn to use appropriate rollups, interpret chart data based on chart resolution, rollups and analytic functions. All concepts are taught using lectures and scenario-based hands-on activities. |
Visualizing and Alerting in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring |
SREs and DevOps |
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This course assumes that you have completed the course Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Fundamentals. It is targeted towards DevOps/SRE/Observability teams, Senior On-call Engineers, Onboarding and Monitoring Strategists and Developers. This 4.5-hour virtual course describes ways to enhance your dashboards and alerts to help with troubleshooting, find insights using analytics in charts and detectors, and create detectors for common use cases. All concepts are taught using lectures and scenario-based hands-on activities. |
Automation Using the REST and SignalFlow API | SREs and DevOps |
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This 2-day virtual course provides the foundation for you to use the API to automate bulk actions such as the creation of charts, dashboards, and alerts. See how to programmatically perform computations that can be used in charts and detectors or streamed in real-time. Use the API to manage Splunk IMteams. |
Using the Splunk IM Terraform Provider | SREs and DevOps |
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This virtual 2-day course targeted towards DevOps, Observability and SRE teams is a follow-up to the course “Automation Using the REST and SignalFlow APIs”. Learn to use the Splunk Terraform provider to manage Splunk IM resources for visualization, alerting and teams. Create and manage detectors and muting rules. Learn to create and modify teams including team notificaiton policies. |