September 2023 Edition
Hayyy Splunk Education Enthusiasts and the Eternally Curious!
We’re back with another edition of indexEducation, the newsletter that takes an untraditional twist on what’s new with Splunk Education. We hope the updates about our courses, certification, and technical training will feed your obsession to learn, grow, and advance your careers. Let’s get started with an index for maximum performance readability:
Training You Gotta Take | Things You Needa Know | Places You’ll Wanna Go
Training You Gotta Take
Cybersecurity | Cyber Skills Education is a Hot Topic
There’s big news on the cybersecurity front! On July 31, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy to tackle the shortage of cybersecurity pros in the U.S. by boosting cyber skills education. At Splunk, we've had our eyes on the growing skills gap for a while, which is why we continue to offer more and more free cybersecurity and skills training – available and accessible anywhere, anytime – with free self-paced training for every Splunk security product. In fact, cybersecurity courses are just part of our curriculum of almost 50 free self-paced courses – including our newest, “The Cybersecurity Landscape” and “Security Operations and the Defense Analyst.” Plus, an entire catalog of self-paced training with labs and instructor-led courses. Stay cyber-savvy, friends.
Gotta Get the Skills | Cyber Skills are Hot
Observability | O11y, O11y Oxen Free
Did you know that observability – in technical terms – is abbreviated as O11y and is defined as the ability to measure the internal states of a system by examining its outputs? Organizations use observability tools to improve the performance of their distributed IT systems – solutions like those from Splunk designed to help organizations gain insight into and understanding of their applications and infrastructure. If you’re new to Splunk, find out how it works by taking our free O11y training, including our newest courses: Introduction to Log Observer Connect and Optimizing Metrics Usage with Splunk Metrics Pipeline Management.
Gotta Learn to O11y | Be Cool at School
Things You Needa Know
What is Splunk | Out with the Old, In with the New
Unlike that old, well-worn Splunk t-shirt, some things really do need to be retired. This holds true for the free Splunk Education “What is Splunk” eLearning, which is being incorporated into an updated “Intro to Splunk” eLearning and will no longer be available after December 31, 2023. Have no fear! No knowledge will be lost – it’s simply an exercise in ‘combine and delete’ – and it is no longer a prerequisite for many of Splunk Education Learning Paths. Oh, and while we have you, in addition to our curriculum of free coursework, we also offer self-paced learning with labs and virtual instructor-led courses taught by really cool humans.
Needa Know What’s New | Get Trained Anywhere, Anytime
ALPs | Splunk Education Spans the Globe
Have you ever wondered how you can access Splunk Education Training and Certification in your own region, in your own language, with local support? Well wonder no more! The Splunk Authorized Learning Partner (ALP) program is an extension of Splunk Education – offering you access to the quality of education you've come to expect from us. ALPs offer courses that dive into Cloud, Security, and Observability for administrators, architects, and users – in your language, timezone, and location. “Parles-tu Français?”
Needa Know About Local Training | ALPs Across the Globe
Places You’ll Wanna Go
To Splunk University | Experience it with Tan Jia Le
Did you know that Splunk University is brought to you each year by Splunk Education – and happens the weekend before our annual user conference? Well, if you’ve ever been curious and wondered what’s all the buzz about, then have we got a story for you! Find out how a college student – who is also a Splunk user – won a conference pass to Splunk University and is taking his learning to a whole new level. Read this and more on the Splunk Community blog.
Wanna Go to Splunk University | Experience it with Jia Le
To the Badge Store | Follow the Path
Let the experts guide you in your quest to acquire your next Splunk Certification badge with curated learning paths. A hot ticket these days is the Splunk Core Certified User Learning Path and Exam Prep. With this path, you can build a strong foundation of basic Splunk platform skills – things like searching, using fields and look-ups, and creating alerts and basic statistical reports and dashboards. This entry-level certification exam prep path is a great place to start if you support Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud platforms. You can find the learning path in the STEP learning platform…just a click and login away.
Wanna Get a Badge | Get Exam Ready
Find Your Way | Learning Bits and Breadcrumbs
Go on a Quest | Resilience Can Be Learned
Go Watch Tech Talks | Deep-Dives for Technical Practitioners
Go Discuss Stuff | Join the Community
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Thanks for sharing a few minutes of your day with us – whether you’re looking to grow your mind, career, or spirit, you can bet your sweet SaaS, we got you. If you think of anything else we may have missed, please reach out to us at indexEducation@splunk.com.
Answer to Index This: Dimensions
