Experimental App Helps Find Other Splunkbase Apps
I’ve recently developed a Splunk app called “splunkbase“. It looks at your Splunk installation and suggests apps on splunkbase.com relevant to your data. It analyzes your indexed data, as well as...
View ArticleSplunk4Good partners with Geeks Without Bounds
I am happy to announce Splunk4Good is formally partnering with Geeks Without Bounds (GWOB) in 2013! The partnership will lend broad support to GWOB’s mission and encourage the use of Splunk products in...
View ArticleSplunk SDK for Java now has maven support
Does your project depend on 3rd party jars, like Splunk SDK for Java? Do you use maven, ivy or gradle to build your project? Do you rely on maven or similar tools to fetch all your dependencies behind...
View ArticleSplunk components for Apache Camel
Recently David Turanski from SpringSource and myself held a joint webinar on Extending Spring Integration for Splunk. The developer feedback was great , and no feedback is better than when an audience...
View ArticleSplunking Websphere MQ Queues and Topics
What is Websphere MQ IBM Websphere MQ , formerly known as MQSeries , is IBM’s Message Oriented Middleware offering and has been the most widely implemented system for messaging across multiple...
View ArticleModular Inputs Tools
Tools I’m a tools kind of a guy. I like things that make my life easier or allow me to accomplish some task that would be otherwise prohibitive. I also like Tool the band , but that’s another blog. And...
View ArticleThe Splunk SDKs for Ruby and C# are now in Beta
The Splunk SDKs for Ruby and C# have reached Beta! Developers familiar with Ruby and C#/.NET can now easily leverage their existing skills to integrate data and functionality from Splunk with other...
View ArticleMobile Analytics with Storm (Part 2)
In the previous article “Mobile Analytics with Storm“, we discussed how to configure the logging library for mobile apps to send stacktrace messages to Storm via REST API. To make this logging library...
View ArticleThe Splunk SDKs for C#, PHP and Ruby have arrived
We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Splunk Development Kits (SDKs) for C#, PHP and Ruby. Coupled with the Splunk SDKs for Java, Python and JavaScript, developers are now fully...
View ArticleSplunk Powers Up With jQuery!
Splunk is happy to announce that we will be a Diamond level sponsor of the 2013 jQuery Portland Conference on June 13 & 14. This is shaping up to be the best jQuery event to date, so if you haven’t...
View ArticleGetting data from your REST APIs into Splunk
Overview More and more products,services and platforms these days are exposing their data and functionality via RESTful APIs. REST really has emerged over previous architectural approaches as the...
View ArticleMobile Analytics (iOS) with Storm
As those who have been following articles about mobile analytics with Storm and Splunk already know, there’s been demand for an iOS library to help iOS app developers to debug their apps. I’m happy to...
View ArticleCommand Modular Input
Simplifying the status quo I’m often thinking about potential sources of data for Splunk and how to facilitate getting this data into Splunk in the simplest manner possible. And what better source of...
View ArticleHunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Intro – Part 1
As you might have already seen, we recently announced the beta availability of our latest product, Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. In this post I will cover some of the basic technology aspects of...
View ArticleMaking SNMP Simpler
Overview From Wikipedia : Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an “Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks”. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers,...
View ArticleHunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Intro – Part 2
Now that you know the basic technology behind Hunk, lets take a look at some of the features of Hunk and how they unlock the value of the data resting in Hadoop. Defining the problem More and more...
View ArticleLPS High School Gets Splunk-ducated
As the Notorious B.I.G said, “If you don’t know, now you know” that on Tuesday, May 21st, there were some young’ns roaming Splunk’s SF building. Splunk4Good invited LPS High School for a visit as part...
View ArticleOakland International High School Visit
On Thursday 5/30 Oakland International High School had a blast visiting the Splunk HQ as part of Splunk4Good‘s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) educational outreach. Splunk UI...
View ArticleFremont Robotics Team
On 6/24 Splunk4Good invited Fremont High School’s Robotics team for a visit as part of our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) educational outreach. There was a little bit of...
View ArticleHappy SysAdmin day! I need to Splunk my brain – does your organization need to?
Hi. I’m having one of those weeks where I could do with Splunking my brain. Why? Because one thought keeps firing off another activity and adding to the unstructured list of things that I need to do....
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