You will learn to leverage Splunk indexing mechanics, Splunk indexers in parallel, and optimal SPL to increase your search speed/efficiency by on average over 500k times faster; search times of months or days will be reduced down to minutes or seconds. A basic understanding of Splunk SPL commands and data analytics (averages and sums) is useful, but not essential, for success in this course because basic SPL will also be covered. Comfort with Linux and with Cloud services are both helpful in following the process for installing Splunk on the Cloud (highly recommended). Much like with Google Cloud and AWS, the first year with Azure is free.