Splunk
Creating Field Extractions
- Level
- Beginner
- Version
- 1.0
- Language
- EN
- Course code
- SP-CFE
Audience
Knowledge Managers
Prerequisites
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following:
- How Splunk works
- Knowledge objects
Contents
This course is for knowledge managers who want to learn about field extraction and the Field Extractor (FX) utility.
The course will cover when certain fields are extracted and how to use the FX to create regex and delimited field extractions.
Outline
Module 1 - Use the Field Extractor
- Explore the different types of extracted fields and when they are extracted
- Define the Splunk Web Field Extractor (FX)
Module 2 - Create Regex Field Extractions
- Identify basics of regular expressions (regex)
- Understand the regex field extraction workflow
- Edit regex for field extractions
Module 3 - Creating Delimited Field Extractions
- Identify delimited field values in event data
- Explore the delimited field extraction workflow
- Explain the use of forwarder management
- Configure forwarders to be deployment clients
- Managing forwarders using deployment apps