>> Welcome to Video 2 of Module 2.
Today we're talking about the Splunk website,
which is obviously a really simple topic,
but I think it's important to know
what resources you have available,
especially when you're scrambling
to find a solution for something.
This is just my recommendation of
things that already have bookmarked.
If we pull up the Splunk website,
we're just on splunk.com here.
And it's a little bit easy to get lost
into all the information that they've got available.
If we were to just look at resources, for example,
they've got eBooks you could read,
they've got tech briefs,
videos, webinars, white papers.
There's tons of stuff here.
I think some of the critical things to know exist
are Splunk docs.
Splunk actually has amazing documentation.
If you wanted to just
select your product here, you can search.
If you're looking for something specifically a bit,
let's just look at Splunk Enterprise.
They've even got it broken down in different categories.
Here's your installation manual,
and I guarantee you that's going to pretty
much tell you everything you would need to know,
barring unusual circumstances, how to install it.
Then we can look at adding data.
Learn how to configure the Splunk add-on for
Palo Alto Networks on
a single instance of Splunk Enterprise.
It's cool. They have really in-depth documentation.
Let's just click on one of these here, the typical page.
You can go down along the side here.
It tells you how to install system log server,
all the other things.
Something to pay attention
to is this version up in the corner here.
If you don't have the latest release,
you should go back a little bit.
Let's go back really far.
Let's see if this even exists
four version that might not even be compatible.
We can see the documentation
relevant for this particular version here.
Another place that's extremely helpful is Splunk Answers.
Chances are if you have a question for something,
somebody else has already asked
it and there are answers to it.
This is an extremely active community.
As we can see, somebody
last modified a question an hour ago,
three hours ago, two hours ago.
People are regularly answering
and asking questions on here.
Whenever you run into an issue,
one of the first things you might do is just try and
see if there's already a really good solution for it.
Splunk base is another place to look at.
If you're trying to even decide
if Splunk is going to work for you,
this might be a good place to start.
You can look for what kinds of apps that they have.
The most major products actually,
if they make sense to integrate with Splunk,
they've got something pre-built to do that.
You can check on here,
see what kinds of apps they have.
Then in later videos
we're going to talk about how to use apps.
But you can see here they've even got
slack notifications that you can add to Splunk,
all kinds of stuff.
That's a good place to be aware of.
Additionally, if we go back to splunk.com,
I said I was going to touch again on
certifications just to make sure you understand.
If we go to training,
there are lots of
learning materials available from Splunk directly.
This is the course.
I really recommend that you take.
This introduction to Splunk
is actually a little more basic than this.
For a fundamentals one
course you would think that that would be really simple,
but it goes a lot more in-depth than you would expect.
After completing this course,
I recommend going into that if you're interested in
Splunk and then taking the exam that comes with it.
You can be a certified course blink user.
Along here, we have different learning paths.
If you have a particular interest in mind,
or you just want to browse what they have available,
check these out, and they
do update this pretty regularly.
I like to come back here every
now and again and see what they've added,
see what they've changed.
Anyways, that's pretty much the Splunk site.
Go ahead and make your bookmarks.
I think that'll help you out and
we'll be onto the next topic. Thanks for watching.