From the course: Practical Splunk: Build Data Intelligence through SPL, Reports, and Dashboards

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Learning objectives

Learning objectives

- In this lesson, we dive into Splunk Search Processing Language, also known as SPL, which is the backbone of the Splunk platform. We take a look at the Splunk Search interface by walking through the Splunk web search and reporting app. We then move on to exploring the structure and syntax of an SPL query. We'll talk about components that you can use in an SPL query, such as wildcard, key-value pairs, Boolean expressions, and the all powerful pipe. Finally, you start to run your own searches. We review plenty of examples that cover various aspects of a Splunk SPL query. By the end of this lesson, you will have learned how to start running simple SPL queries to retrieve data from Splunk. Let's get right to it.

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