June 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
Deep dives | Instructor-led classes with labs
Remember that time you clicked on the article about bottlenose dolphins and ended up on a travel site about the Maldives? We all do it. We deep dive because we’re curious! That’s why Splunk Education offers deep dive training classes led by seasoned instructors from Splunk Platform, to Security, to Observability. Now, there’s no need to click and click to get to the training you need to get the promotion you want that pays for the ticket to the Maldives you imagined. Splunk and our Authorized Learning Partners have the training options to fit your realities.
Gotta get that promotion | Take a deep dive into Splunk
Last Minute Learning | Grab a seat at the eleventh hour
“It’s so hard to plan ahead,” or “I need more training now!” No matter your archetype, we’re here for you. Splunk’s Last Minute Learning provides opportunities to quickly add more courses or catch up on those you've postponed. Every week, we list upcoming instructor-led sessions with open seats. Simply sign up using your Splunk.com account and pay with your company training units or a credit card. It’s time management for every personality.
Gotta get training in | Last minute instructor-led courses
Things You Needa Know
Splunk Careers Report | Proof that Splunk proficiency will pay off
If you missed it, insights from our latest Splunk Career Impact Survey proves that your hard work becoming proficient using Splunk is paying off. According to the survey results, very proficient practitioners of Splunk are 2.7 times more likely to get promoted, and those with Splunk certifications plus higher levels of Splunk proficiency reported earning approximately 131% more than their less-proficient peers. With your Splunk skills, you're on the way to future-proofing your career!
Needa be resilient | Learning Splunk is the way
Your feedback is gold | Sign up for the Splunk User Research Program
If you’re reading this newsletter, you’re likely pretty familiar with some of our Splunk products and solutions. And, if you’re a Splunk product user, you likely have some opinions. Well, we’d like to hear about them. So, register for upcoming Splunk User Research (SPLUXR) studies to share your experience and ensure Splunk products remain intuitive, accessible, and easy to use. While you’re in class, feel free to jot down your observations and thoughts and share those with us too.
Needa be an influencer | Sign up for user research studies
Places You’ll Wanna Go
Back to university | Splunk Academic Alliance program supports the next generation
Frequenting the university library, dining hall, and rec center may be a distant memory for you, but it might not be for your early career colleagues or employees. That’s why you should get to know the Splunk Academic Alliance program. Offered by Splunk Education, we provide product donations and workforce development so academic institutions have equitable access to our software platform. The program includes a license for Splunk software and access to eLearning and more for qualifying not-for-profit universities – at no cost. Be part of closing the skills gap by sharing the value of Splunk Academic Alliance.
Wanna go to university | Share the value and help support the next generation
Splunk Lantern Customer Success Center | Lighting the way
If you know you know. Splunk is committed to all-things-education by providing free, self-paced online courses on cybersecurity, which can be structured by learning path to support varying levels of expertise and interest. Also free and always available is the Splunk Lantern Customer Success Center. Lantern is designed to “light your way” so you can take your knowledge to the next level with expertly-written documentation designed to guide your optimal usage of Splunk.
Needa light the way | Splunk Lantern makes it clear
Find Your Way | Learning Bits and Breadcrumbs
Go Stream It | The Latest Course Releases (Some with Non-English Captions!)
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: A hole
