https://community.splunk.com/t5/Training-Certification/Suggestion-on-certification/m-p/705639#M2073 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/273995">@venal</a>,</P><P>Experience querying and pivoting relational data provides a solid foundation for analyzing data in Splunk; however, Splunk data is stored as a time series and streamed to clients as events. "<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/SQLtoSplunk" target="_self">Splunk SPL for SQL Users</A>" is a good starting point, although it can lead to bad habits if not supplemented by other documentation and formal training.</P><P>If you're a database administrator with combined Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows experience, you'll find many parallels between how a Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster is managed and how a simple Splunk Enterprise indexing cluster is managed; however, the product architectures diverge very quickly.</P><P>Experience with Microsoft Windows and a server-oriented Linux distribution, e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, are important for supporting Splunk Enterprise on-premises or in a self-managed hybrid/cloud environment. If your target is Splunk Cloud, operating system experience is still required to effectively support Splunk Universal Forwarder on endpoints/servers and Splunk Enterprise configured as a heavy forwarder.</P><P>Splunk administrators install, configure, and maintain all aspects of Splunk Enterprise or configure and maintain customer-accessible aspects of Splunk Cloud.</P><P>A Splunk "developer" can be a content developer (searches, reports, and dashboards), an app developer (add-ons and technology integrations), a back-end developer (primarily web services), a front-end developer (Splunk SDK and third-party clients), or any combination of the four.</P><P>Splunk certification paths are published at&nbsp;<A href="https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/certification.html" target="_blank">https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/certification.html</A>.</P><P>The Splunk Success Framework describes the typical roles associated with Splunk deployments and provides corresponding learning paths:&nbsp;<A href="https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Success_Framework/People_Management/Setting_roles_and_responsibilities?mt-learningpath=ssfpeople" target="_blank">https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Success_Framework/People_Management/Setting_roles_and_responsibilities?mt-learningpath=ssfpeople</A></P> Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:25:57 GMT tscroggins 2024-12-01T18:25:57Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Training-Certification/Suggestion-on-certification/m-p/705632#M2072 <P>Hi, I have 12 years of experience in IT with Microsoft Technologies - MS SQL Server, MSBI, Power BI. Now I am planning to improve my technical skill set with Splunk. So please suggest...</P><P>1. Do I need to know any other technologies to learn Splunk</P><P>2. Admin &amp; Developer growth in Splunk</P><P>3. Suggest certifications as per my previous experience.</P><P>Regards,</P><P>Venal.</P> Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:40:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Training-Certification/Suggestion-on-certification/m-p/705632#M2072 venal 2024-12-01T11:40:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Training-Certification/Suggestion-on-certification/m-p/705639#M2073 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/273995">@venal</a>,</P><P>Experience querying and pivoting relational data provides a solid foundation for analyzing data in Splunk; however, Splunk data is stored as a time series and streamed to clients as events. "<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/SQLtoSplunk" target="_self">Splunk SPL for SQL Users</A>" is a good starting point, although it can lead to bad habits if not supplemented by other documentation and formal training.</P><P>If you're a database administrator with combined Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows experience, you'll find many parallels between how a Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster is managed and how a simple Splunk Enterprise indexing cluster is managed; however, the product architectures diverge very quickly.</P><P>Experience with Microsoft Windows and a server-oriented Linux distribution, e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, are important for supporting Splunk Enterprise on-premises or in a self-managed hybrid/cloud environment. If your target is Splunk Cloud, operating system experience is still required to effectively support Splunk Universal Forwarder on endpoints/servers and Splunk Enterprise configured as a heavy forwarder.</P><P>Splunk administrators install, configure, and maintain all aspects of Splunk Enterprise or configure and maintain customer-accessible aspects of Splunk Cloud.</P><P>A Splunk "developer" can be a content developer (searches, reports, and dashboards), an app developer (add-ons and technology integrations), a back-end developer (primarily web services), a front-end developer (Splunk SDK and third-party clients), or any combination of the four.</P><P>Splunk certification paths are published at&nbsp;<A href="https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/certification.html" target="_blank">https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/certification.html</A>.</P><P>The Splunk Success Framework describes the typical roles associated with Splunk deployments and provides corresponding learning paths:&nbsp;<A href="https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Success_Framework/People_Management/Setting_roles_and_responsibilities?mt-learningpath=ssfpeople" target="_blank">https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Success_Framework/People_Management/Setting_roles_and_responsibilities?mt-learningpath=ssfpeople</A></P> Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:25:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Training-Certification/Suggestion-on-certification/m-p/705639#M2073 tscroggins 2024-12-01T18:25:57Z