Dynamic Dashboards
The Splunk Education single-subject course module, Dynamic Dashboards is designed for power users who want to learn best practices for building dashboards in the Dashboard Studio.
This course focuses on creating inputs, chain searches, event annotations, and improving dashboard performance.
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Splunk Credit Value : 50
Duration : 3 hours
Time : 9:00 am - 12:00 pm AEST
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Dynamic Dashboards - Course Topics
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Data Source Types
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Mock Data
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Event Annotations
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Adding Inputs
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Chain Searches
Class Format
Instructor-led lecture with labs. Delivered via virtual classroom or at your site
Course Prerequisites
Foundational Knowledge:
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following:
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How Splunk works
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Creating search queries
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Knowledge objects
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Dashboard definition
Dynamic Dashboards - Audience
Knowledge Manager learning path
Dynamic Dashboards- Course Objectives
Topic 1 – Selecting a Data Source
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Identify dataSources stanza fields
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Name search types
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Use a secondary data source
Topic 2 – Adding Inputs
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Identify types of inputs
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Describe how inputs work
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Create a dynamic input
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Add cascading inputs
Topic 3 - Improving Performance
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Identify performance improvement methods
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Use tstats and accelerated data models
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Create chain searches
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Set defaults
Topic 4 – Comparing Temporary versus Persistent Fields
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Differentiate between temporary and persistent fields
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Create temporary fields with the eval command
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Extract temporary fields with the erex and rex commands
Topic 5 - Enriching Data
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Understand how fields from lookups, calculated fields, field aliases, and field extractions enrich data
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Splunk Course Schedules and Timezones
Splunk Course are delivered live and in English and provide access to customers spanning multiple timezones.
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Dates and times displayed for each course are relative to Australian Eastern Time (AET).
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AM Marked Splunk Courses
AM marked courses start at AET 9:00am and finish at AET 1:30pm and are optimal for customers in the following countries and areas;
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UTC+10 including Australia (East Coast)
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UCT+11/+12 including New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
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UTC-8 including USA (West Coast), Canada (West Coast)
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UTC-7 including USA (Mid West)
PM Marked Splunk Courses
PM marked courses usually starts at AEDT 12:00pm or AEST 11:00 am and are optimal for customers in the following countries and areas;
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UTC+10 including Australia (East Coast)
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UCT+11/+12 including New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
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UTC-8 including USA (West Coast), Canada (West Coast)
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UTC-7 including USA (Mid West)
