About

Vishal Taneja is a highly skilled Sr. Splunk Engineer with 8.95 years of relevant experience. He is a certified Splunk Admin and Power User with 6+ years of working experience with Splunk Enterprise. Vishal is proficient with Splunk architecture and various components such as indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server, Heavy and Universal forwarder, and License model. He has worked on the implementation of new environment setups, single-site as well as multisite clusters, and has expertise in setting up replication factor and search factor based on high availability and disaster recovery details provided by the customer. Vishal has extensive knowledge of Splunk infrastructure, including deployment, pipeline, inputs, apps, indexes, and monitoring. He has experience in CIM, creating lookups, field Aliases, Calculated fields, field extractor, Tags and event types, workflow actions, Alerts, and scheduled reports, Macros with Splunk. He has also created different visualizations using Bar, Line and Pie chart, Bubble chart, Scatter plots, Histograms, Trend lines & statistics, Heat maps, etc. Vishal is well-versed in parsing, indexing, and searching concepts of Hot, Warm, Cold, and Frozen bucketing. Vishal has optimized dashboards using various techniques and configured Splunk monitoring for production environments through Splunk configurations files. He has developed statistical complex dashboards to monitor the production application’s proper working and failures. He has hands-on experience in creating dashboards and visualizations with Splunk. Vishal has supported applications of various technologies, including WebSphere, Unix, and Window Servers, for around 3+ years. Vishal has worked with top companies like Gartner and Mercer in the past and is currently working as a Senior System Engineer at Gartner. He has experience in project management with consistent performance in managing schedule, effort, client experience, employee engagement, and organization initiatives. Vishal has executed large projects with responsibilities of execution, management, design, and client management.