The Complete Splunk Beginner Course (Udemy.com)
The world's number one Splunk course, covering both Splunk Core Certified User and Splunk Core Certified Power User
Created by: Adam Frisbee
Last updated April 2026
Our take
Based on the ratings of 29,061 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in April 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.
This is a short introduction to Splunk, not a full training program. It runs about 3.8 hours across 44 lectures and 10 sections, with slide decks, seven quizzes and two practice tests. Topics go from deploying and installing Splunk through basic searching, knowledge objects, dashboards, the Common Information Model and a first look at SPL2. The requirements assume comfort installing software and basic networking, so it fits IT staff and SOC analysts better than people who have never touched a server. It was last updated in April 2026.
Reviewers like the teaching. Adam Frisbee gets credit for clear videos and an engaging style, and about 87 percent of the 29,061 ratings are four or five stars. One reviewer says they passed the exam afterward, and others feel more confident with Splunk. The complaints are consistent too. The tests are the sore spot: some questions read like trivia, some ask for several answers without saying so, and one reviewer found questions with no right answer. Others say the pace is fast, the installation section is long for what it adds, and examples are thin.
Treat it as a fast orientation rather than full exam prep. The headline says it covers Power User too, but one reviewer called the second test nearly impossible from what the course teaches, and another said Splunk's own free STEP content is better quality. One reviewer also suggests a sandbox or public practice data for real SPL work. Our read: take it to learn the layout of Splunk and the basics of SPL, then add hands-on practice before booking an exam.
Pros
- Teaching that reviewers call clear and engaging, even on tricky Splunk topics
- Short at about 3.8 hours, so a working analyst can finish it in a weekend
- Covers install, searching, dashboards, knowledge objects and a first look at SPL2
- Updated in April 2026, with downloadable slides, quizzes and two practice tests
Cons
- Quizzes and practice tests draw complaints for trivia, vague wording and unanswerable questions
- Pace is fast and examples are few, so real SPL practice needs outside data
- Not truly beginner: it assumes install and networking skills, and the install section is long
Was able to pass the exam after taking this course. Appreciate the guidance and practice exam!
Marked All Levels, but it assumes install and networking basics, and some true beginners say it starts too advanced.
What you will learn
- Set up a working Splunk environment
- Become familiar with SPL2, Splunk's next-generation query language
- Understand the basics of SPL (Search Processing Language)
- Create meaningful reports and dashboards in Splunk
- Build datasets, data models, and other knowledge objects
Course content
10 sections · 44 lectures · 3.8 hours of video 7 quizzes, 2 practice tests, 2 assignments
- 1Welcome and Introduction 4 free previews5 lectures · 2 quizzes · 27 min
- 2Deploying Splunk5 lectures · 1 quiz · 23 min
- 3Getting data In4 lectures · 1 quiz · 11 min
- 4Installing Splunk10 lectures · 2 quizzes · 57 min
- 5Basic Searching5 lectures · 1 quiz · 35 min
- 6Splunk Knowledge Objects5 lectures · 33 min
- 7Visualizing Your Data4 lectures · 18 min
- 8The Splunk Common Information Model2 lectures · 13 min
- 9Intermediate Searching and The Future with SPL24 lectures · 10 min
- 10Splunk Practice Tests2 quizzes
Who it is for
The instructor says it suits
- Have you been tasked with setting up Splunk but aren't sure where to start?
- Do you want real practice exercises in Splunk?
- Have you heard about the power of having Splunk on your resume?
- Do you want to participate in the big data and machine learning boom?
- Do you want to pass the Splunk certification exams?
- Pass the Splunk Core Certified User Exam!
What you need before you start
- Install software in a Windows or Linux environment
- Understand basic Linux and Windows concepts
- Linux Bash experience helpful but not required
- Understand basic networking concepts
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 45% of them
- Reviews29,061#9 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length3.8 hoursshorter than 63% of them
- Last updatedApril 2026more recently than 73% of them
Course Description
Welcome to the world's number one best selling Splunk course of all time!
This covers both the Splunk Core Certified User and Splunk Core Certified Power User in one inexpensive course!
Includes tutorials using SPL and Splunk's new SPL2
Over 100,000 students, a consistently very high rating, and the best selling Splunk course of all time, established 2017!
One of those students, who gave me permission to post this, says:
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"Rated you 5 stars! Your course was amazing. I bought your course, got started on Saturday, went through all the videos and exercises. Then re-watched it again on Sunday at 1.5 speed...and got a job Monday working with Splunk! Every technical question they threw at me I was able to answer including example SPL. This was an amazing life changing decision to take this course." - Neil
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Course always updated for the latest versions of Splunk! As Splunk updates their software, I'll update this course content, and you don't have to purchase anything else!
Lifetime access
Lots of downloadable content
All slides available for download
Custom, helpful documents made just for you!
The best course for learning Splunk, the leader in real-time monitoring, operational intelligence, log management, and SIEM (security information and event management). Your instructor is Adam Frisbee, a university instructor, a Splunk Certified Administrator and a Splunk geek.
In this course we will go through Splunk architecture, setting up your own Splunk instance, searching and reporting with Splunk, creating cool visualizations in Splunk, and much more!
Don't buy poor quality courses! This course is high quality, with hours and hours of video content, downloadable slide decks for every lecture, practice problems and data sets, and quizzes that really test your knowledge after each section.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
29,061 Reviews
Adam Frisbee
Enterprise Technology & Data Leader | CIO / CDO Scope | Digital Transformation | Healthcare & Public Sector
Adam Frisbee leads enterprise technology and data strategy across complex, federated public sector, healthcare, and higher education environments, operating at CIO / CDO / VP of Information Technology scope and owning mission‑critical platforms, modernization roadmaps, and large enterprise technology portfolios.
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Reviews
By Zachary Oppong on 8/3/2026
Hi Adam Frisbee, I wanted to thank you for leading the Splunk course. Your videos are extremely clear and make complex topics easy to understand. I feel much more confident with Splunk now because of your lessons, and I really appreciate the high quality of your teaching!
By Matthew Franks on 7/20/2026
Was able to pass the exam after taking this course. Appreciate the guidance and practice exam!
By Guillermo Aaron Alvarez Salazar on 6/26/2026
its an okay course as an introduction to splunk and how to use it, for that i found it very useful, the test sections in the course however focus too much on random theory facts that feel more like gotcha trivia like "what port is the default used for X", this is information that is easily searchable and not worth memorizing in my opinion, a lot of questions felt writen this way instead of aiming to test the practical use of splunk or SPL.
By Trystan Angelo Garza on 6/19/2026
Taking a live Splunk course soon. want to spend my time utilizing it to the best of my abilities. This course is doing a good job helping me understand the format of Splunk as someone who Works only with Kibana. This in addition to a few Hunt exercises are making me more comfortable using it for the way I will be using it as a SIEM
By Adrian Rodriguez on 5/26/2026
I'm really enjoying the presenter's speech style and getting good information from the course thus far.
By Anonymized User on 5/19/2026
Great course and great teacher. Improvement axis: 1) the section about the installation on multiple OS is the biggest and even if useful is not the core of the course, that should be the queries 2) the examples and materials provided are few and sometimes the pace of the course was too quick, even if i used splunk in the past. I suggest to add more slides and more practical examples. 3) the test at the end were far to complex. The first one is achievable but the second is really impossible based on the knowledge acquired here
By Nived Gumpena on 3/4/2026
Adequate to understand what splunk is and guides you with a lot of stuff, There is nothing to practice much on it some basic stuff, I would recommend using splunk sandbox or any other splunk practice data online to get proficient. What else could you expect in a 3 hour course. I am a SOC Analyst and the reason I learnt this is not to get good at splunk but only to understand SPL and use it for threat hunting
By Neil Ong on 11/21/2025
This course goes straight to the point with the installation on Splunk and how to search & visualize data. The total of 3.5 hours worth of videos is important for someone who just want to get into learning how Splunk works in general fast. There's just a small issue with the CIM Demo in Section 8 (#40) where it's a duplicate video of #39. Other than that, I really liked this course.
By Dudi grinstin on 11/7/2025
Very user-friendly to many differences between the lecture material and the real update site
By Anonymized User on 11/5/2025
The 39th and 40th video on CIM models are the same. Other than that the information given was very helpful. Please fix the 40th video.
By Jimmie Powell on 11/14/2020
The instructor to this point has demonstrated the complex deployments in a comprehensible and digestible format.
By Gregory Wells on 11/7/2020
Course is going well. I like the Searching and Reporting area.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100








