October 2025 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. This month, we’re celebrating Rocktober with a music-inspired edition. 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
Free Fallin’ | An ode to learning without limits
Cue Tom Petty, because we’re free fallin’ with over 80 free Splunk self-paced training courses! There’s no “freeway running through the yard,” but our self-paced training courses are accessible online, anytime - covering a wide range of topics from basic Splunk functionalities to advanced security operations. Get obsessed with dashboards, detections, and data, so you can show up at work like a rock star making a big stage entrance.
Gotta show up online | eLearning that rocks
Paradise by the Dashboard Light | Data visualizations on display
“Stop right there! Before you go any further,” learn how to create Splunk Dashboards that highlight your most important data. With our Introduction to Dashboards course, our instructors will show you how to use source code, layouts, and data sources to create dashboards that sing. Then, dial it up with Dynamic Dashboards, where you’ll add user inputs, drilldowns, and learn to create dynamically colored dashboards. Your dashboards will go from “meh” to Meat Loaf-epic.
Gotta know right now | Light up your visualizations
Things You Needa Know
Start Me Up | New releases that never stop
Learning Splunk is so addictive that once you start, you’ll never stop. That’s why, every month we release new courses so you can “give it all you got.” Whether you’re tuning up your security skills, humming along with new SOAR knowledge, or remixing data insights with Observability, Splunk Education has the set list you need. The Splunk Community blog includes the full review of new hits each month so you can “get the moves like Jagger.”
Gotta know the score | Latest releases on The Community
We Are the Champions | Certified and validated
“No time for losers ‘cause…” Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineers are the champions. They are certified champions within the SOC and they’ll “keep fighting ‘til the end!” This Splunk certification proves you’ve got what it takes to optimize workflows, fine-tune detections, and automate like a pro using Splunk Enterprise Security and SOAR. And now? No prerequisites stand in your way of victory and validation.
Gotta know how to defend | Become a Splunk Certified champion
Places You’ll Wanna Go
You Really Got Me | Help contribute to Lantern’s new vibe
“You really got us goin’,” so let’s go further together. Splunk Lantern is getting a major glow-up, and your voice can help shape the way we show up online. We’re redesigning the site to make finding expert insights, use cases, and Splunk tips faster than the Kinks’ most complex drum fill. Take a look at our new homepage wireframe and share your thoughts, because the best performances are always powered by the fans.
You’ll wanna go to Lantern | Help us rock the new Lantern experience
Come Together | Follow us on LinkedIn
The Splunk Training and Certification LinkedIn is your ticket to staying connected about Splunk Education. “I know you, you know me,” and we all know the value of Splunk Education. On our LinkedIn, we share new course releases, Last Minute Learning opportunities, certification news, and backstage insights about how you can experience technical training on using Splunk. There are so many ways to learn Splunk, so we’re making sure you have a place to get all the top hits.
Gotta follow the band | Splunk Education on LinkedIn
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 Discuss Stuff | Join the Community
Go Index It | Subscribe to our Newsletter
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Answer to Index This: When it’s Rocktober at Splunk
