September 2024 Edition
Hayyy Splunk Education Enthusiasts and the Eternally Curious!
We’re back with this month’s edition of indexEducation, the newsletter that takes an untraditional twist on what’s new with Splunk Education. We hope the updates about our courses, certification program, and self-paced training will feed your obsession to learn, grow, and advance your careers. Let’s get started with an index for maximum performance readability:
Training You Gotta Take | Things You Needa Know | Places You’ll Wanna Go
Training You Gotta Take
Just your style | Over 50 free eLearning courses
If you’re searching for a used coffee table to refurbish, it’s possible you could find one on Facebook marketplace for free. But, if you’re searching for career-changing tech courses, you’ll definitely find more than 50 on the Splunk Education website for free. We’re here to help you learn on your own terms in your own style so you can take your career to the next level – no money required. So, start exploring some no-cost Splunk eLearning courses like Using Fields, Intro to Dashboards, Scheduling Reports and Alerts, and many more. We like to think we put the free in freestyle.
Gotta learn for free | Over 50 no-cost eLearning courses
The Foundation | Fundamentals of Metrics Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud
When the lecture hall is your office, the whiteboard is your laptop, and the professor is a Splunk training expert. That’s how we roll in Splunk Education. Our virtual instructor-led trainers teach all the concepts using lectures and scenario-based hands-on activities, which is how you will experience “Fundamentals of Metrics Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud.” This course serves as the foundation for all other Splunk Observability courses and is targeted to DevOps/SRE/Observability teams, Senior On-call Engineers, Onboarding and Monitoring Strategists and Developers and provides a fundamental understanding of metrics monitoring in Splunk Observability. Start here and begin your observability journey with a solid foundation.
Gotta see it to believe it | Observability makes it clear
Things You Needa Know
How Pedro advanced his career | SMARTNESS Series, Episode 2
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine how far we can take our careers – until we hear about how others have done it. So, if you need inspiration to help you grow your career with Splunk, maybe Episode 2 of our Splunk Education SMARTNESS series will show you what’s possible. This episode features Pedro Borges, who shares how he went from being a skeptic to a believer by learning Splunk through training, hands-on experience, and by tapping into the brilliant Splunk community. “Honestly. I’m running out of certifications to take!” See where curiosity and a growth mindset can take you.
Needa be inspired | Meet Pedro
Tick tock | Grab a seat at the last minute
When you’re done scrolling TikTok, we’d like to remind you that (tick tock) time’s a-wastin and life’s too short to procrastinate. Splunk Last Minute Learning is motivation du jour, designed so you can quickly get the technical training you might be putting off. And, since Splunk Training Units expire one year after purchase, taking a class at the last minute may be just the ticket to ensuring those training units don’t go unused. Simply sign up using your Splunk.com account and pay with your company training units (or a credit card if training units are not part of your plan). When you need that dopamine hit, just scroll our course catalog and imagine the places you can go with Splunk.
Gotta get training in | Last minute instructor-led courses
Places You’ll Wanna Go
Splunk Lantern | How to boost LLM observability with Splunk
Raise your hand if you’ve used ChatGPT to write a carefully crafted response to a sensitive email? Well then, you’ve experienced just one type of use case for using large language models. This month, Splunk Lantern – the customer success center that provides advice from experts on key use cases and how to optimize Splunk – shares another use case. Thanks to the expertise of Derek Mitchell, Global Observability Specialist at Splunk, you can access a step-by-step guide that demonstrates how OpenTelemetry can be used to view LLM data in Splunk Observability Cloud. You need to know what questions to ask in order to find the answers you seek.
Go further with Lantern | LLM data is key to o11y
Back to school | STEPtember is here
Changing leaves, crisp, cool days, and back to school means it’s autumn in North America! More specifically, it’s STEPtember in Splunk Education. We’re all about providing ways you can learn and excel so you can optimize Splunk for your organization, and we have a learning platform designed with you in mind. The Splunk Training & Enablement Platform (STEP) is the place to view our entire technical training catalog, enroll in courses, access in-progress eLearning, and review completed training and course completion certificates. Grab a PSL, fire up your HP, and STEP into a world of opportunities.
Go to tech school | STEPtember, where school is always in session
Find Your Way | Learning Bits and Breadcrumbs
Go Chat | Join our Community User Group Slack Channel
Go Stream It | The Latest Course Releases (Some with Non-English Captions!)
Go Last Minute | Seats Still Available for ILT
Go Deep | Register for Security and Observability Tech Talks
Go Discuss Stuff | Join the Community
Go Index It | Subscribe to our Newsletter
Thanks for sharing a few minutes of your day with us – whether you’re looking to grow your mind, career, or spirit, you can bet your sweet SaaS, we got you. If you think of anything else we may have missed, please reach out to us at indexEducation@splunk.com.
Answer to Index This:
F I V E
Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV.
