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New support for authoring modular inputs in Node.js
Modular inputs allow you to teach Splunk Enterprise new ways to pull in events from internal systems, third party APIs or even devices. Modular Inputs extend Splunk Enterprise and are deployed on the...
View ArticleWhat’s in store for Developers at .conf2014
In less then a week, .conf2014 kicks off at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. As in past years, there won’t only be tons of great keynotes, sessions and training for the entire Splunk community, but also...
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Get your Community on at .conf2014!
Community is HUGE at Splunk, and we’re doing it up big at this year’s .conf with our own gigantic Community Lounge. Here’s a sampling of what’s in the works: Masters of IRC panel discussion Wednesday,...
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Now Time For the Splunk Weather Forecast
If you were at .conf last week you would have likely seen some of the exciting Internet of Things projects people are using Splunk for. I think Ed Hunsinger put it best: So far I’ve heard about...
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Delegated admin
The role hierarchy in splunk allows a user who has the ‘edit_user’ capability to create other splunk users and grant them any role including admin. But what if you want delegate user creation to a...
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Protocol Data Inputs
It must have been about a year ago now that I was talking with a Data Scientist at a Splunk Live event about some of the quite advanced use cases he was trying to achieve with Splunk. That conversation...
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The Bank of Splunk
No, we’re not diversifying into a financial services company… I recently received a letter from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. If you’re reading from the US, they perform many of the same duties...
View ArticleBuilding a great Splunk App for Apptitude
How do I build an app that’s going to stand out as the best among an intensely competitive pool? That’s a question that’s on a lot of minds as Splunk Apptitude gets rolling. Splunk has introduced a...
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Making Sense: Manufacturing, Splunk and Industrial Data
Recently, in the online publication Manufacturers Monthly, Denise Carson published a piece called “Harnessing Operational Intelligence”, and really made the case for using big-data and platforms like...
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Popular Cisco Networks App Recognized with Splunk “Revolution Award”
The first inkling I had of the usefulness of the Cisco Networks App for Splunk Enterprise (formerly Cisco IOS) came from a Cisco field team who helped their customer get the app working and immediately...
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Make it flash! Make it flash!
Splunk ships with some really neat visualisation options. From bar charts to gauges. Though sometimes they just don’t fit your requirements. Wether that be something as simple as an custom icon or a...
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SSSL (Splunk Secure Sockets Layer)
The primary reason why SSL is used is to keep sensitive information sent across the internet encrypted so that only the intended recipient can understand it. This is important because the information...
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SMail: Splunking Your Inbox
Google sent me a nice message to start the year – “Your inbox is reaching its limit”. Looking at my GMail inbox I have well over 70k emails, taking up just under 15GB of space. I’m interested in how...
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A custom search command for Yelp
A while ago we posted on search commands and how to build a basic generating command which creates dummy “Hello World” events. Generating commands can be used for much more including talking to...
View ArticleNotes on Splunk CIM
So you want to work with the Splunk Common Information Model, and you’re not sure where to start… developers first working with the CIM and Add-ons are sometimes confused by its minimalist design,...
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Splunk App for SalesForce
Do you manage a Salesforce environment and would like to analyze who is accessing what? Would you like to find out who is exporting sensitive data? Would you like to detect any Salesforce related...
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git commit -a -m “Splunking Github Blog”
I <3 Github. Splunk <3’s Github (check out our repos here). I am told it is just a coincidence our HQ is opposite theirs. One of the neat things about Github I am just starting to explore is...
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Announcing the Splunk Developer Guidance
Greetings, Splunk Developer Community! This week we are announcing the new Splunk Developer Guidance program at the Splunk Partner Summit Americas 2015. The main objective is to provide our developer...
View ArticleThe Splunk SDK for JavaScript gets support for Node.js v0.12 and io.js!
We’ve just released an update the Splunk SDK for JavaScript, v1.7, with some great new features! Most importantly support for Node.js v0.12.x and io.js. You can get it on npm or GitHub, and docs are...
View ArticleTroubleshooting connectivity issues to Splunk’s API from the SDK
A common problem we see customers struggle with is how to diagnose connectivity issues with any of our SDKs. In this post, I’ll show you a few tried and true practices that can help you figure out what...
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