Splunk Platform Admin Learning Journey



As a Splunk Platform Admin, your role involves managing the Splunk infrastructure, ensuring data ingestion, monitoring system health, optimizing performance, and providing support to users.

Choose your level: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced


Beginner

Getting Started

Learn the basics of Splunk in a hands-on workshop environment, with a self-paced search tutorial, and an on demand webinar.

Join the #admin, #splunk-cloud, and #getting-data-in Slack channels for real-time help from the Community.

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Splunk4Rookies Workshop for beginners

This 3-hour, hands-on workshop is for anyone new to Splunk that would like to understand the basics.

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Splunk Search Tutorial

Leverage a sample dataset to learn how to add data to Splunk, search the data, save searches as reports, and create dashboards.

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Onboarding and managing data

Learn how to onboard, forward, transform, route, and archive your data in Splunk Cloud Platform or Splunk Enterprise.

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Intermediate

Building your skills

These resources will help you accelerate your learning journey with Splunk and get live help from the experts when you need it

Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app

New to SPL? No problem. Splunk Cloud Platform customers can now use this generative AI app to quickly write and explain SPL queries in natural language.

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Training Path for Splunk Platform Admins

Launch your Splunk education quickly with this curated learning path for Splunk Platform Administrators (page 4). Take courses on your own schedule from any device.

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Ask the experts at Office Hours

Join a live AMA, where technical Splunk experts answer questions and provide how-to guidance on various Splunk product and use case topics.

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Advanced

Advancing your expertise

For deeper expertise, follow the prescriptive articles in the Splunk Outcome Paths and become a Splunk Certified Admin

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Best Practices for Workload Management

By implementing these best practices, organizations can maximize resource utilization, enhance user experience, and drive cost savings.

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Improve Data Management and Governance

A systematic approach to data management, policies for data onboarding, validation, normalization, classification, and enrichment.

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Become a Certified Admin for Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise

Learn and strengthen your management and configuration abilities by becoming a certified admin for Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise.

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What's New with Platform Admin

Some new features for Splunk platform admins include enhanced data ingestion and processing capabilities with Data Management pipeline builders (Edge Processor and Ingest Processor), new Federated Search for Splunk capabilities, including the GA of Federated Search for Amazon S3, the release of the Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app, updates to the Dashbaord Studio experience, advanced security enhancements, and much more.

Check out the latest Product News & Announcements blogs for Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise to learn more.

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Get Help from the Community

Check out the Splunk Administration and Splunk Platform boards on Splunk Answers to troubleshoot any questions/problems with Splunk experts.

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