If you are interested in learning splunk in 30 minutes, most likely you want to finish a work with a tight deadline. I assume your office already have splunk installed, and you got an account, logged in, now is surfing various dashboards and wondering how to make a dashboard for your own. Most likely you already knew SQL and shell scripts. 30 minutes later, you should be able to create a splunk dashboard.
Now let's start the timing.
So far we have learned the most important functionalities of splunk -- creating dashboards. If the 30 minutes haven't elapsed, keep reading the following topics.