Course Overview
A first-of-its-kind, this 5 day training course, exclusively delivered by Fast Lane, combines comprehensive sales enablement with hands-on technical skills development, empowering Cisco and Splunk Partners to confidently position, sell, deploy, and operate integrated observability solutions built on Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk.
Through a blend of instructor-led learning, interactive discussions, Cisco Discovery Labs, and Fast Lane Splunk Labs, participants gain a deep understanding of how Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk work together to provide end-to-end visibility across networks, applications, cloud services, and digital user experiences.
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Articulate the business value and strategic benefits of integrated Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk observability solutions.
- Demonstrate key capabilities, features, and real-world use cases to customers and stakeholders.
- Confidently position and sell the combined solution within enterprise and service provider environments.
- Install, configure, and integrate Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk components.
- Monitor, analyse, and troubleshoot complex IT environments using a unified observability platform.
- Leverage intelligent, data-driven insights to accelerate issue resolution and improve operational performance.
- Showcase how integrated observability helps organisations proactively optimise application performance, network health, and digital experiences.
This immersive programme equips both sales and technical professionals with the knowledge, practical experience, and confidence required to drive customer success, accelerate adoption, and maximise the value of Cisco and Splunk observability solutions.
Who should attend
- Account Managers
- Business Development Managers
- Sales Specialists
- Pre-Sales Consultants
- Systems Engineers
- Solutions Engineers
- Solutions Architects
- Technical Consultants
- Professional Services Engineers
- Network and Observability Specialists
- Customer Success Managers
Prerequisites
There are no formal pre-requisites to take this class, but the knowledge and skills required are as follows:
- Basic understanding of network fundamentals
- Basic understanding of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), HTTP, SSL, and DNS protocol
The following courses may help you meet these prerequisites:
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain observability concepts and position Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk within an observability strategy.
- Describe the architecture and key capabilities of Cisco ThousandEyes.
- Deploy and manage Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents.
- Configure BGP, network, DNS, voice, and web-layer tests in ThousandEyes.
- Deploy and configure Endpoint Agents for end-user monitoring.
- Perform system administration tasks within the ThousandEyes platform.
- Use ThousandEyes to troubleshoot network and application performance issues.
- Configure alerts, dashboards, and monitoring solutions in ThousandEyes.
- Understand the fundamentals of the Splunk platform and SPL searches (optional module).
- Integrate Cisco ThousandEyes data with Splunk.
- Ingest and work with ThousandEyes telemetry and test results in Splunk.
- Use Splunk to search, analyze, and navigate ThousandEyes data.
- Apply ThousandEyes monitoring and troubleshooting data within Splunk workflows.
- Understand the fundamentals of Splunk ITSI and its role in observability operations.
Outline: Cisco ThousandEyes with Splunk Integration (CTESI)
- Course roadmap - Lecture
- Module 1: Observability, Foundations and Platform Positioning - Lecture
- Module 2: Cisco ThousandEyes Essentials - Lecture
- Introduction to Cisco ThousandEyes - Lecture
- Schedule a Test - Lab
- Enterprise Agents Deployment - Lecture
- Deploy Enterprise Agent - Lab
- BGP, Network, DNS, and Voice Tests Configuration - Lecture
- Configure Network, DNS, and Voice Tests - Lab
- Web Layer Tests Configuration - Lecture
- Configure Web Server Tests - Lab
- Configure Transaction Tests - Lab
- Endpoint Agent - Lecture
- Deploy and Configure an Endpoint Agent - Lab
- System Administration - Lecture
- Configure Account Administration - Lab
- Network Troubleshooting - Lecture
- Utilize Device Layers - Lab
- Alerts and Dashboards Configuration - Lecture
- Configure Alerts - Lab
- Build a Dashboard - Lab
- Monitoring Solutions - Lecture
- Module 3: Splunk Platform Fundamentals - Lecture
- Module 4: Integration: Getting ThousandEyes Data Into Splunk - Lecture
- Module 5: Using Splunk to Navigate ThousandEyes Data - Lecture
- Splunk Power User - Lab
- Module 6: Splunk ITSI Fundamentals - Lecture