Splunk: Dashboards and Reports

Splunk is one of the most widely used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions in enterprise environments. It helps aggregate data from various data sources within an enterprise environment to enhance security monitoring. However, large volumes of data can quickly overwhelm analysts. In this room, you’ll learn practical ways to organize, visualize, and manage data in Splunk to make analysis faster, clearer, and more effective.

Learning Objectives

• Learn why organizing data in Splunk is crucial for analysts
• Create reports for recurring searches of event data
• Explore alert creation and rule building
• Build dashboards for the visualization of data
• Cover Splunk's functionality as a SIEM

Prerequisites

• Splunk: The Basics to familiarize yourself with the Splunk interface
• Splunk: Exploring SPL for an overview of the search processing language

Lab Access

Click the Start Machine button below to start the lab. Please give Splunk five minutes to start and access the dashboard with this link:

• https://LAB_WEB_URL.p.thmlabs.com/ (opens in new tab)

Set up your virtual environment

To successfully complete this room, you'll need to set up your virtual environment. This involves starting the Target Machine, ensuring you're equipped with the necessary tools and access to tackle the challenges ahead.

Target machine

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Start Machine