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September 12–14 2026  |  DENVER, COLORADO

Splunk University

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The ultimate learning experience

September 12–14, 2026

Take advantage of this incredible learning opportunity and get the most out of your .conf26 experience! Head to Denver a few days before the conference to attend Splunk University. You’ll stand out among your peers, deepen your expertise with hands-on courses, expand your knowledge, and make your organization more resilient.

What to expect:

  •  Materials will be provided to you in advance through STEP. Be sure to create a login for easy access.
  •  Three-day courses run from September 12–14.
  •  One-day courses are on Monday, September 14.
  •  Class hours are 8:30 am–4:30 pm.
  •  We’ll supply breakfast, lunch, caffeine, and education. All you have to bring is yourself and your laptop!

 

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Use training units to pay for select .conf26 passes and Splunk University.

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Three-day tracks

Choose one of these three-day sessions.

Power User

This three-day track takes you from A-Z for a Splunk power user, including topics on how to search, manipulate, correlate, and model data. Our most popular course with new or less experienced Splunk users.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

Enterprise Administrator

This three-day track prepares administrators to install, configure, and deploy on-prem Splunk environments. It combines content from Splunk Enterprise System Administration and Splunk Enterprise Data Administration.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

Mastering Splunk Data Management Techniques

This three-day course prepares administrators to evaluate and design data management processes and deploy, manage, and optimize Splunk data ingestion pipelines.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

Advanced Enterprise Administrator

This three-day track prepares administrators to install, configure, and troubleshoot standalone and clustered Splunk deployments. It combines content from Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cluster Administration.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

Analytics and Data Science

This three-day track prepares users to perform more scientific analysis on their data with the Machine Learning Toolkit. It includes content from Exploring and Analyzing Data with Splunk and Splunk for Analytics and Data Science.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

SOC Analyst

This track quickly equips new analysts with Splunk skills and best practices, featuring hands-on practice in threat investigation, detection, hunting, and response, along with two new courses and a refreshed 'Cybersecurity Defense Essentials' class.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

SOC Engineer

This track builds the foundation for SOC engineers in threat detection and incident response, featuring Administering Splunk Enterprise Security and a new course on integrating open-source attack simulation tools with Splunk for testing detections and responses.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

Security Automation

This track covers the fundamentals for SOC automation developers, including Administering Splunk SOAR, Developing Splunk SOAR Playbooks, and a new course on integrating open-source attack simulation tools with Splunk for testing detections and responses.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

Security Architect

This track includes Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments, plus new courses focused on security data architecture, integrating open-source attack simulation tools with Splunk, and exploring key SOC roles, tasks, and challenges.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

Monitoring Applications Using Splunk Observability Cloud

This three-day track prepares DevOps and SRE teams to use Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor and troubleshoot their application environments. It combines content from: Introduction to Splunk Observability Cloud, Fundamentals of Metrics Monitoring, Using Splunk APM, Using Splunk RUM, and Using Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

Two-day tracks

Choose one of these two-day sessions.

Splunk Cloud Administrator

This two-day course is for administrators new to Splunk Cloud and those wanting to become more experienced in managing Splunk Cloud instances. It provides the opportunity to gain the skills, knowledge and best practices for data management and system configuration for data collection and ingestion required in a Splunk Cloud environment.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

Dashboard Studio

This two-day track is designed for power users who want to learn best practices for building dashboards and forms in Dashboard Studio. It combines content from Creating Maps, Introduction to Dashboards and Dynamic Dashboards.

Skill Level:
  • Beginner > Intermediate

Searching your data and building apps with SPL2

This two-day track is designed for anyone who wants to learn Splunk’s next-generation search language, SPL2. This course combines content from Learning SPL2 Fundamentals, Mastering SPL2, and Building Splunk SPL2 Apps. You will learn the use cases for leveraging SPL2, navigate the SPL2 interface, take a deep dive into performing searches that include Custom Functions and Evals, apply best practices when using SPL2, and build apps using SPL2 Modules.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

Full observability pipeline with Splunk OpenTelemetry

This two-day practical training guides you from the basics of OTel and Splunk Observability Cloud to the deployment and configuration of the OTel Collector. You will learn advanced configuration with processors and exporters, collecting Kubernetes-specific telemetry, and enabling APM auto-instrumentation for real-time application insights. Visualize and alert on raw telemetry data in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

One-day course

Short on time? This one-day course accelerates learning like no other.

Enhancing SOC Operations with Attack Simulations

This one-day course empowers experienced SOC staff to perform threat investigation, detection, and incident response using open-source attack simulation tools integrated with Splunk, while deepening their understanding of SOC roles, tasks, and challenges.

 

 

Note: This course requires prior training and/or experience with Splunk security products (Enterprise Security and SOAR). Beginners should attend the SOC Analyst track.

Skill Level:
  • Intermediate > Advanced

Splunk University

September 12–14

 

1 Day

$1,000


100 training units

2 Days

$1,800


180 training units

3 Days

$2,400


240 training units

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