Using Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (USIM) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Topic 1 – Introducing Splunk IM

  • Describe the Splunk IM solution
  • Describe and use metadata
  • Use the Infrastructure Navigator
  • Navigate built-in dashboards

Topic 2 – Create Team Summary Dashboards

  • Create a Splunk IM team
  • Work with dashboard groups and dashboards
  • Work with charts
  • Share dashboards and charts
  • Describe how Splunk IM handles data

Topic 3 – Alerting on Metrics

  • Create detectors
  • Create events
  • View events in dashbaords
  • Mute notifications
  • Share charts

Topic 4 – Using Common Analytic Functions

  • Use sum (group by)
  • Use Top N/Bottom N
  • Use percentiles
  • Compare week over week change or look at growth rate
  • Describe rollups and resolution in charts
  • Create data links
  • Monitor multiple signals

Topic 5 – Creating Detectors for Common Use Cases

  • Monitor populations
  • Create non-flapping detectors
  • Monitor aperiodic data
  • Handle delayed data
  • Monitor cyclical patterns
  • Monitor large number of sources
  • Monitor an ephemeral infrastructure