Splunk for Beginners – Start Your Log Journey

Learn Splunk: Quick-Start for Windows Users

Want to get started with Splunk fast? This beginner-friendly course is designed to help you install, configure, and use Splunk on a Windows machine.

You’ll begin by setting up Splunk and learning how to ingest Windows event logs. From there, you’ll dive into writing simple but powerful search queries and visualizing your data with easy-to-create dashboards.

This course is ideal for IT professionals, students, or anyone curious about data analysis and log monitoring. It focuses on real-world use cases with hands-on examples so you can apply what you learn right away.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• Install and configure Splunk on a Windows machine
• Ingest and analyze Windows logs
• Perform basic searches using SPL (Search Processing Language)
• Create simple, useful dashboards to visualize system activity
• Ingest datasources such as the Boss of the Soc from Splunk and how to use an EventGen to create your own logs for testing purposes.
• Understand the powerful stats command and multiple ways you can use it

If you’re looking for a fast, no-fluff introduction to Splunk on Windows, this free course is the perfect starting point.

We can’t make you a Splunk Ninja in the length of this course, but we can teach you what Splunk is, how to ingest data, how to search some of that data, and how to create some reports.  Not bad for a less than an hours’ worth of work.