Introducing Splunkbase Curated Experience
There are about 1,200 apps in Splunkbase today. Up until now, the typical ways to look for an app on Splunkbase have been to either search for the app, or filter through multiple apps based on several...
View ArticleEncrypt a Modular Input Field without using Setup.XML
Modular Inputs are a great addition to Splunk Enterprise. One of the things I really like about Modular Inputs is that they allow you to create inputs that “look and feel” as if they were part of the...
View ArticleBuilding add-ons just got 2.0 times easier
Are you trying to build ES Adaptive Response actions or alert actions and need some help? Are you trying to validate your add-on to see if it is ready to submit for certification? Are you grappling...
View ArticleImportant information for customers using Splunk Enterprise 6.2 or earlier
Do you use SSL to secure Splunk Enterprise? Are you still using Splunk Enterprise version 6.2 or earlier? If you answered yes to both of these questions, please read on. Securing communication with...
View ArticleCreating McAfee ePO Alert and ARF Actions with Add-On Builder
One of the best things about Splunk is the passionate user community. As a group, the community writes amazing Splunk searches, crafts beautiful dashboards, answers thousands of questions, and shares...
View ArticleHow to: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop on Amazon EMR.
**Please note: The following is an example approach outlining a functional Splunk Analytics for Hadoop environment running on AWS EMR. Please talk to your local Splunk team to determine the best...
View ArticleSplunking Kafka At Scale
At Splunk, we love data and we’re not picky about how you get it to us. We’re all about being open, flexible and scaling to meet your needs. We realize that not everybody has the need or desire to...
View ArticleEvent Calendar Custom Visualization
A while back, I wrote a blog post about using a custom calendar visualization in Simple XML dashboards. To accomplish this, I used a technique sometimes referred to as escape hatching JavaScript into...
View ArticlePersonal Dev/Test Licenses give you the freedom to explore
Do you have a new use case to validate? Untapped data sources to investigate? Wouldn’t it be great to explore how Splunk might help other parts of your organization? All without impacting your...
View ArticleSplunk Challenge 2016 – Catch ’em all at Nanyang Polytechnic!
Splunk Challenge 2016, the annual Splunk challenge that many NYP students have been waiting for, is here! Today, the students will be pitting their analytics’ skills learned using Splunk, against each...
View ArticleAnnouncing new AWS Lambda Blueprints for Splunk
Splunk and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are continuously collaborating to drive customer success by leveraging both the agility of AWS, and the visibility provided by Splunk. To support that goal, we’re...
View ArticleDocker 1.13 with improved Splunk Logging Driver
The evolution of Splunk and Docker continues! In the early days (2015) of Splunk and Docker we recommended using the native syslog logging driver in Docker Engine. In Feburary of 2016, Docker 1.10...
View ArticleEasily Create Mod Inputs Using Splunk Add-on Builder 2.0 – Part IV
Add-on Builder 2.0 provides capabilities to build modular inputs without writing any code. In this post however, we focus on using an advanced feature of Splunk’s Add-on Builder 2.0 to write custom...
View ArticleKaufland DevSummit2016 – Splunk for DevOps – Faster Insights, better code
The first DevSummit event was recently hosted by Kaufland with 200 people attending for the day to hear presentations about the “World of API”, discuss the latest best practice developments and build...
View ArticleVisual link analysis with Splunk and Gephi
As cyber-security risks and attacks have surged in recent years, identity fraud has become all too familiar for the common, unsuspecting user. You might wonder, “why don’t we have the capabilities to...
View ArticleGetting Cloud Native with Splunk and Cloud Foundry
The following is guest blog post by Matt Cholick, software engineer, Pivotal. Enterprises are moving to microservices architectures, continuous delivery practices, and embracing DevOps culture. This is...
View ArticleUsing machine learning for anomaly detection research
Over the last years I had many discussions around anomaly detection in Splunk. So it was really great to hear about a thesis dedicated to this topic and I think it’s worth sharing with the wider...
View ArticleFrom API to easy street within minutes
30? 20? …15? It all depends on how well you know your third-party API. The point is that polling data from third-party APIs is easier than ever. CIM mapping is now a fun experience. Want to find out...
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