TryHackMe Splunk walkthrough


Splunk is a renowned log aggregation tool. It gathers machine generated data and presents it in a very understandable format. It is also used as an SIEM tool and it is quite good at it.

I am doing the TryHackMe Splunk room and will be doing a walkthrough of the same.




Task 1 is basically deploying the machine and waiting for it to load. It will take up some time. Download the quick reference guide in Task 1 and move on to Task 2, the quiz, while the machine loads in the background. Go through the guide once before attempting the quiz.

Task 2: Can you Dig It

#1
search
search command is used to look up for things you actually wanna look up in the whole data.

#2,3
rare command gives you the top 5 or 10 least common result while the top command gives you the top most

#4
index
it's like a repository of the data.

#5
dashboard

#6
dedup 
deduplicates data.

#7
transaction

#8

pipe

#9
timechart

#10
stats

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