@to4kawa let me mention some of the resource I used besides premium Splunk Learning track: Splunk Docs: I also started with SPL knowledge first and Splunk Docs was my first friend. Splunk Dev: Splunk Dev site with walkthrough and examples Splunk Dashboard Examples app: Allowed me to adjust my HTML, CSS and JS skills as per Splunk Web Framework and Splunk JS Stack,. Splunk Blogs : Repositories of new features and technical walkthroughs. Find and read as per your needs. It has several gems, like one of my favorite Splunk Validated Architecture 🙂 Splunk Conf sessions: Recording of previous .Conf sessions with sessions targeted for Beginner, Intermediate and Expert Splunkers. Amazing Splunk Community: As you might already be aware, Splunk Community is a great place to learn and grow like Splunk Answers, Slack Chat Splunk User Group, Splunk User Group around your local area. I specially like the Splunk Answers and Slack User Group because they give me opportunity to implement my knowledge and explore new use cases without the limitation of geography and timezone. Also I would recommend you to look at Splunk Trust as to how to become a Trust Member and one of benefits of joining Splunk Trust is that you get free Splunk Education Credits . Splunk How To Youtube channel: Quick bites, tips and tricks on Splunk How To Youtube channel. You can also request your own. Splunk Dev For All app on Splunkbase which has several Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced examples. Splunk Education has several free course which you can go through. If you are working for Splunk Partner company then depending on the agreement the some additional courses will be free or at reduced price. Splunk Partner Portal and resources. If you are Splunk Partner with access to Partner Portal login you can access several Partner/PS related learning resources. ... View more

@mkhedr most of the data used in Splunk Fundamentals course is cooked up data of a hypothetical "Buttercup Games". Refer to documentation for the type of data and get sample data which is generated and uploadedweekely: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchTutorial/Aboutthetutorialdata If you want the data only for practicing, you can use Splunk's Internal index data as well: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Troubleshooting/WhatSplunklogsaboutitself You can also refer to one of my older answers on similar request: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/621429/where-to-download-data-for-use-to-practicelearn-sp.html ... View more

@nichchan, mid of last month Splunk announced new Accreditation and Certification paths and informed that Sales Engineer I and II paths no longer require demo and Custom Data Load (CDL) presentations . You should check the Sales Engineer I Accreditation path on Partner Portal. You can reach out to Accreditation Team on [email protected] for any clarification/details. ... View more

@ReneRiech, with Splunk's latest releases usually there is also an Overview App created for the same to outline the new features you should check out Splunk Enterprise 7.0 Overview App from Splunkbase. From Dashboards perspective, new features are added to the Splunk Dashboard Examples App where each example also mentions supported version/s . You should check out the blogs: https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/09/26/introducing-splunk-enterprise-7-0.html and https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/09/26/what-s-new-in-splunk-enterprise-7-0.html as well. For details to specific features you should definitely search for the same in Splunk Documentation for the latest release. Please let us know if you need further details for anything specific. ... View more