Splunk Administration: Monitor & Optimize Data

About this course

Master advanced Splunk administration and build the practical skills to configure, monitor, and optimize data management across distributed environments. You’ll set up deployment servers and clients, create and distribute deployment apps, and automate forwarder configuration through centralized server classes. You’ll trace machine data from input through parsing and indexing, configure parsing rules, and monitor ingestion with checkpoints and metadata fields. Using the Splunk Monitoring Console, you’ll assess forwarder health, system performance, and data throughput. You’ll also configure file and directory monitoring, multi-line log handling, host overrides, blacklists, and rate limiting to support efficient input management. As you progress, you’ll manage data forwarding, queue hierarchies, index configurations, persistent queues, load balancing, and indexer acknowledgment to improve data integrity and reliability during network disruptions. You’ll also implement scripted, Windows, and agentless inputs using custom scripts, command-line tools, Event Log, Perfmon, and PowerShell. Designed for IT professionals and Splunk administrators, this course combines structured instruction with real-world configurations and operational insights. Enroll to develop the skills to deploy, troubleshoot, and fine-tune scalable Splunk environments for reliable enterprise data operations.

Course objectives

• Understand Splunk administrative features and functionalities
• Develop the ability to deploy and fine-tune Splunk environments
• Gain insights into monitoring data flows for performance optimization