It is once again the annual “Splunk Challenge” competition held at the School of IT in Nanyang Polytechnic today. This competition aim to promote awareness of data analytics using machine data and using Splunk as a platform for Operational Intelligence and I saw a class filled with eager students waiting to display their “splunkfullness” skill in the competition to win home a Macbook Air, iPad mini and iPod nano.
Taking on the tasks set in the questions paper are no easy feat. There are two parts to the competition. First they will need to understand and interpret the dashboard shown to them and also to explain the datasource that is needed to populate the reports and the second part of the competition require the student to build thier own dashboard and reports using the “Splunk Processing Language”, build in visualisation tools or development apps and template they can lay their hands on. This is to test their proficiency, resourcefulness and creativity in producing dashboards with more advanced features.
5 hours has past as we count down to the end of the 6 hours competition, we saw so many compelling dashboards taking shape on each of the student monitor showing “IT Operation”, “Security Operation”, “Data Centre Operation”, “Application Delivery” and “Business Analytic”. For a moment, i am glad I am not the one that is judging the work of the student for it is not going to be easy to select the best out from all the high quality dashboards.
Hours past and the students are ready to showcase their dashboards.
Finally we have the top 3 winners that is going to bring home the fantastic prizes. Although there are only 3 prizes, but I am sure everyone in the room has enjoyed the session and has gain more from the experience alone. I congratulate the winners and once again thank all the students, lecturers and also our special guest from Allie Solutions Pte Ltd who has make this event a successful one!