Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc. which make up your IT infrastructure and business.

If you have a machine which is generating data continuously and you want to analyze the machine state in real time, then how will you do it? Can you do it with the help of Splunk? Yes! You can. Here you can see the image, it will help you relate to how Splunk collects data.

Real time processing is Splunk’s biggest selling point because, we have seen storage devices get better and better over the years, we have seen processors become more efficient with every ageing day, but not data movement. This technique has not improved and this is the bottleneck in most of the processes within organizations.

This course is intended to briefly understand the growth of Splunk and the massive career opportunities it presents in possibly every domain of big data. Just in case you didn’t know already, Splunk is a platform that is used to monitor and analyze big data generated by an organization’s technology infrastructure, security systems, business operations, and other sources. Of course, SMAC from your organization generates a truck full of data that Splunk is hungry for. Splunk collates, indexes and processes all of this data to help organizations gain valuable operational intelligence from huge quantities of machine-generated data.     

Forbes says that big data related jobs pertaining to unstructured machine data and Internet of Things (IoT) have seen unprecedented growth percentages in excess of 704% globally over the last five years. Specific job roles that promise lucrative Splunk careers include:

• Software Engineer

• Systems Engineer

• Programming Analyst

• Solutions Architect

• Security Engineer

• Technical Services Manager

  
  

  If you are a Splunk enthusiast (or aspire to be one anytime soon), the future is filled with possibilities that are challenging and lucrative. This is just the perfect time to learn and master Splunk. A career in Splunk has three primary spokes – Architect, Administrator and Developer.