Announcing availability of the latest version of the Splunk ODBC driver!
We are happy to announce general availability of the latest version of the Splunk ODBC driver. With the latest release we have added exciting new capabilities: Microstrategy Analytics Desktop users can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Splunk-o-ween. A Machine Data Horror Story
It was a dark and stormy night at ACME Corporation. An IT guy, let’s call him Bill and his Product Manager, Ted (most excellent names) are sat in the office on the evening of Thursday 30st October. In...
View ArticleDon’t Forget to CIM! Or, How I Learned to Love Tags
Let me tell you a little story about something which I learned (or re-learned!) today. For the impatient, you can read Jack’s previous article on building technology add-ons, and go learn CIM (which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tracking mobile presence w/ Cisco Meraki
Following our amazing turn out at .conf2014, I’ve had a lot of inquiries into how we were able to track the attendees based on their location as well as proximity to the wireless Cisco Meraki devices...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Detecting outages caused by unauthorized changes
Splunk is a great solution to search, investigate as well as monitor your IT environment, whether it is application, infrastructure or network related. One perplexing issue to detect is related to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My .conf2014 Data Adventure Part II. Leaving Las Vegas
I hope you all had a suitably spooky Halloween. In Part I of my round up of .conf2014 I went through the keynote speakers on the first day (GE, Red Hat, Coca Cola and NASDAQ) and how they used Splunk...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What can you get for $10.74 / hour ?
Why $10.74 you may ask? Well, that’s the minimum hourly wage in San Francisco (at least as of this writing Nov 2014) … With that out of the way let’s see what else you could get for $10.74/hour … you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Biking With Splunk>4Good for Early Cancer Detection!
Earlier this year, a group of Splunkers decided to embark on the Canary Challenge—getting involved with the fight against cancer to benefit the Canary Center at Stanford. To help make a difference in...
View ArticleSplunk 6.2 Feature Overview: XML Event Logs
We’ve been (rightly) criticized for a couple of things in recent years. Firstly, when you configure a Windows Event Log, it’s too big. This is because we combine the event log object with the message...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleSplunk 6.2 Feature Overview: Perfmon Delocalization
Last week, I covered the XML Event Logs – an awesome feature that will reduce your data ingest, increase the fidelity of the data that is stored and allow us to work with localized data. Today, I want...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleMachines, People, and Categories, Oh My!
Let’s say you’re working with Enterprise Security and you need to figure out how to put more devices into the asset and identity correlation framework. Here are some resources to get you started! There...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing the new Splunk App for AWS
Today we’re excited to announce the release of a fully re-written and much expanded Splunk App for AWS. Get it here and gain immediate operational assurance and visibility for your AWS-hosted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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 ArticleClik here to view.
Share your Feedback!
Hello Splunkers! Thank you for being a Splunk customer! At Splunk, we are always seeking ways to improve our service. The best way for us to do that is to ask you, the experts! On November 4th, we...
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...
View ArticleSplunk App for SharePoint goes Open Source
For about the last year, I’ve been working on an update to the Splunk App for SharePoint. But it isn’t the one you would expect. I’ve been working to open source the app. At the end of the day the best...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Smart AnSwerS
Hello, and welcome to the debut of Smart AnSwerS, a weekly blog series featuring posts from Splunk Answers on trending issues, interesting use cases, and more! For the last couple of months, I’ve been...
View ArticleMonitoring Network Traffic with Sysmon and Splunk
Every IT guy has a set of tools that they use every day. One of mine is sysinternals. It’s a set of Windows utilities made available by Microsoft that do a whole slew of things. You can install them...
View Article