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Hunk: Raw data to analytics in < 60 minutes
Finally, I got a bit of down time to sit down and get to the third part of the “Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Intro” series of blogs, a follow up to part 1 and part 2 Summary of what we’ll do 1....
View ArticleMonitoring Local Administrators on Remote Windows Systems
One of our field people asked me if we could use the Splunk App for Active Directory to monitor Local Administrators on a list of hosts. The Splunk App for Active Directory monitors domain...
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A Developer’s Smorgasbord
First bite of the Cherry(py) I didn’t always work at Splunk. In fact, many moons ago I used to be a Splunk customer. At the time we were simply looking for a means to better consolidate our...
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That happened: episode 35
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: it’s been a while, so here’s an extra-long edition. .conf 2013 is around the corner! Some...
View ArticleSplunk in Healthcare
Healthcare is a prominent topic in the U.S. today. New and existing government regulations and legislation are onerous and forcing dramatic changes in Healthcare IT. These changes involve increasing...
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Splunking the Environment – Finding the relationships between Haze and Dengue
Just slightly over a month ago, Singapore has been hit by the worst haze crisis ever in history. This was due to the forest fire bellowing from nearby Indonesia caused by illegal slash-and-burn farming...
View ArticleDetecting Your Hypervisor from within a Windows Guest OS
Let’s face it – most of our applications run on hypervisors – Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware or Citrix XenServer seem to be the top contenders. This makes our technology stacks that much more complex since...
View ArticleThere’s Still Time to Enter the Splunk App Dev Contest
The inaugural Splunk App Dev Contest is heading into the home stretch but there’s still plenty of time to enter and win. The Splunk App Dev Contest is a chance to show off your development chops and...
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Welcome to the new Splunk Apps site!
Hi All – Many of you are familiar with Splunkbase, the site that has been host to both Splunk Answers Q&A and Splunk Apps. To date, Splunkbase has been a very popular resource, serving thousands of...
View ArticleDetecting Fraud
I sometimes get asked if Spunk can detect fraud. The answer is yes, but the question is broad and needs an understanding of the situation that needs to be detected before making a generalization. Fraud...
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Big Data at .conf2013
conf2013, the fourth annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, will be held September 30 to October 3 in Las Vegas at The Cosmopolitan Hotel. This year’s conference theme is “Your Data, No Limits” and...
View ArticleSplunk .conf 2013 welcomes Higher Education
A few days in Vegas… what enters your mind when you think about that? My own Vegas memories are irrevocably linked to the glory days of Comdex, pre-dotcom crash. Which just tells you how old I have...
View ArticleSplunk Universal Forwarders and the Domain User
One of the things that you have to decide right up front on Windows is how to run the Universal Forwarder. For most situations, running as the Local System account is adequate, providing access to all...
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The Splunk App for VMware v3.0 has arrived
It seems like I just blogged about the general availability of the Splunk App for VMware 2.0. With typical Splunk speed, I’m here to introduce you to the latest and greatest of our now generally...
View ArticleSXSWi PanelPicker now open! Vote Big Data = Big Save: Innovation in Emergencies
Big data is saving lives around the globe by changing the way we prepare for and respond to emergencies. Splunk4Good works year around to support innovation in emergency management and Christy Wilson...
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Splunk .conf2013 Revolution Awards: Nominate your favorite use of Splunk for...
Splunk Revolution Award Nominations are almost closed! Read and act quickly as nominations are still being accepted thru the end of August! We’re always excited to hear about the cool, inspiring ways...
View ArticleBuild a Splunk App by end of Aug, you could win something cool
Splunk’s Annual User Conf is coming up in just six weeks (Sept 30-Oct 3) and is seriously one of my favorite times of year. I am especially excited .conf2013 has so much awesomeness for developers. In...
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Mobile Analytics (iOS) with Splunk and Storm (Part 2)
In the previous article “Mobile Analytics (iOS) with Storm” , we discussed about sending stacktrace of uncaught exceptions from apps that run on iOS platform into Storm with the STORM REST API. We hope...
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Analyzing iOS data with Splunk Enterprise
This article describes in detail the steps to: configure the iOS library install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk app to receive data forwarded from iOS mobile devices basic Splunk searches CONFIGURE THE...
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Get ready to be amazed at Conf2013!
It’s almost September! Why am I excited? Beginning of Fall or end of summer? Of course that and much more….. Splunkers around the world have been waiting to meet peers, hear all the cool use cases...
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