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Splunk supporting the .NET Fringe conference
Next week, we’re heading down to Portland to attend .NET Fringe. This is an event focused on a lot of cool stuff happening in the .NET Community around OSS. As an active member of the .NET OSS...
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The Splunk Apptitude App Contest to give out $150,000 in prizes
The RSA Conference 2015 is in full swing here in San Francisco, and Splunk is out in force. With so much news coming out of the conference, it’s easy for things to get lost in the shuffle so I wanted...
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Integrating Splunk with Docker, CoreOS, and JournalD
Hal here, your friendly Lorax and developer evangelist! I wanted to share with everyone a guest post from a Splunker whom I met and see regularly at the Metro Atlanta Splunk User Group, Robert Labrie....
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Caching Hadoop Data with Splunk and Hunk
Although Hadoop is good at processing a large amount of data, it is not the fastest platform. Below are a list of options that Splunk and Hunk can offer to speed up the retrieval of results and lower...
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Zillow developing on Splunk
The Splunk Developer platform allows extending the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise by building your custom solutions. One of the ways to extend Splunk is to implement custom search commands,...
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Splunk Apptitude App Contest: Hear from previous winners and enter now
The Splunk Apptitude App contest is entering its final month and there’s still time for you to enter for a chance to win up to $150,000. Earlier this month we were fortunate to catch up with past...
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Building Splunk Solutions
Splunk is delighted to announce the publication of the new developer guide: Building Splunk Solutions. This authoritative guidance is built by developers for developers. Splunk Enterprise is a...
View ArticleDIY 0 to 60 with Splunk in 3 steps
A lot of folks (particular developers) often ask me how to get started with building an app in Splunk? Many of the askers have no previous exposure to Splunk. Here are the steps I recommend: Download...
View ArticleRaise a Glass to Splunk Apptitude Winners
With the grand prize of $100,000 being awarded to the Fraud and Insider Threat category, it was only appropriate to announce the winners at Blackhat 2015 – one of the largest security conferences in...
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Collecting docker logs and stats with Splunk
I’m working at Splunk, but this is my personal thoughts. I have some knowledge about Splunk obviously, but you should not consider this as an official Splunk manual. Everything I did here – I did only...
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Using The SplunkJS Stack – Part 1
I’ve recently helped a customer integrate the SplunkJS stack into their own custom web application. I wanted to spread the knowledge so others could learn as well. What is the SplunkJS stack you ask?...
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SMS Alerting from Splunk with Twilio
Modular Alerts With the release of Splunk 6.3 comes an exciting new feature called Modular Alerts. Historically the alerting actions in Splunk have been limited to Email, RSS and if you wanted to...
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Turbo charging Modular Inputs with the HEC (HTTP Event Collector) Input
HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Splunk 6.3 introduces a new high performance data input option for developers to send event data directly to Splunk over HTTP(s). This is called the HTTP Event Collector...
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Notes From Splunk .conf 2015 Day Two
The Search party last night was a blast, but today it was back to business. And Day 2 of the global Splunk user group, .conf2015, was another excellent day. I started with some good mates from the...
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Scheduled Export of Indexed Data
I’m really enjoying playing with all the new Developer hooks in Splunk 6.3 such as the HTTP Event Collector and the Modular Alerts framework. My mind is veritably fizzing with ideas for new and...
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Achieving scale with the Kafka Modular Input
A hot topic in my inbox over the recent months has been how to achieve scalability with the Kafka Modular Input , primarily in terms of message throughput. I get a lot of emails from users and our own...
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Splunk at Dynatrace PERFORM
This week, Splunk will be participating at Dynatrace PERFORM – the annual users event for Dynatrace APM users. Not only is Dynatrace the largest APM vendor by market share, we know that many people are...
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Custom Message Handling and HEC Timestamps with the Kafka Modular Input
Custom Message Handling If you are a follower of any of my Modular Inputs on Splunkbase , you may see that I employ a similar design pattern across all of my offerings. That being the ability to...
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Splunking Sensor Data with Arduino and HTTP Event Collector
It’s been (relatively) chilly in the SF office the last few weeks, but given “how I feel” is rather subjective I figured it would be an excellent chance to both gather some empirical evidence, and try...
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Join Splunk at the Emirates Travel Hackathon next weekend!
Splunk is pleased to be sponsoring the Emirates Travel Hackathon next weekend, and we want to see you there! The event is taking place Nov 7th in San Francisco, and is open to all who want to...
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