Do you have any recommendations for freely available data, real or generated, that can be used to practice

[Xandervzyl]

I know this is a niche and rookie question, but maybe someone out there can provide some guidance. I'm quite new to Splunk. I have practiced inputting data and working with it in Fundamentals 1, but I believe inputting other types of data and working with it will be good in helping me learn.

I'm enjoying learning Spunk, but I lack a lot of experience in data analytics. I don't know where to start looking for good practice data.

I don't expect many people to have practice data readily available, even so, thank you for hearing me out.

[bowesmana · Accepted solution]

There are various ways to get data to play with, the value will depend on the use case you're trying to explore

If you are on a windows machine, you can export windows event log data or you can create CSV data with a spreadsheet and just create some simple formulas to create dummy data

On *nix based machines, just look in /var/log

You can even use Splunk log files to play with from $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunkd. That data can easily be imported to a new index and you can set up sourcetypes to do things with that.

Simple google for free datasets will give you numerous hits where you can get data to play with.