Splunk, Java and “The Internet of Things”
Spending some time in Asia this week has only further reminded me of how many machine data generating devices permeate our modern lives.Mobile devices, CCTV cameras, Car computers, Hotel smart TVs,...
View ArticleMeet your Splunk Hackathon builders: Splunk App for Varnish
Dale Neufeld {team name: “Mighty Canadian Beaver”, spirit animal: “Mighty Canadian Beaver”} was one of the awesome app builders that participated in Splunk’s first App Builder Contest at .conf2012....
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Splunk the Vote
Splunk4Good and Rock the Vote have partnered to build an unique view into the U.S. Election. Our teams collaborated to build a Splunk powered visualization that displays a unique set of real-time...
View ArticleCode for America: open data and hacking the government
Last week, I attended the Code for America Summit here in San Francisco. I attended as a representative of Splunk>4Good (we sponsored the event via a nice outdoor patio lounge area and gave away...
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How’s Traffic?
By the title of this post, many of you may assume that I am referring to network traffic. However, today’s topic is about monitoring vehicular traffic incidents or what some of us call accidents in...
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That happened: episode 23
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: nerdcore rising, accoutrements for the modern superhero, Splunk aka the Borg. Wasn’t Vanilla Ice...
View ArticleWe are Listening…
At Splunk, we are committed to providing the best product and customer service. Feedback from our customers helps us identify areas in which we are doing well, and areas of opportunity for...
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Transaction Searching: Unifying Field Names
EXCERPT FROM “EXPLORING SPLUNK: SEARCH PROCESSING LANGUAGE (SPL) PRIMER AND COOKBOOK”. Kindle/iPad/PDF available for free, and hardcopy available for purchase at Amazon. Problem You need to build...
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Splunk4Good volunteers at Full Circle Farm
Splunk4Good volunteers learn to plant at Full Circle Farms People inherently want to do good and give back. They simply need help aligning that desire with a meaningful, accessible opportunity....
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Meet Your Splunk Hackathon Winners: Correlating Public Health Data
Tim Baldwin, Andrew Tillotson and Zach Vida {team name: “Son of Buttercup”, spirit animal: “Buzzard”} won first place in the “Best Application for Social Impact” category at Splunk’s first App Builder...
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Splunk 2012 Revolution Awards—Winners!
When I was in Las Vegas last month for our Users’ Conference, I randomly threw twenty dollars into a pirate-themed penny slot machine. It was late at night, I might have had an adult beverage or two,...
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Web dev: hack days & hacking passwords
The Web Dev team here at Splunk had our first hack days! These are two days we take every quarter to leave aside our Jira queue of bugs and features and focus on doing something fun. As a team we come...
View ArticleWorkflow Action and Blocklists
I got a question about extending Enterprise Security yesterday, and would like to jot down some notes about the solution. While ES comes with several automated blocklists, customers often want to...
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Improving the Splunk(x) Monitors
The time has finally come for us to bring Splunk(x) to the far reaches of the galaxyworld. I got a call from our Fed team requesting Splunk(x) monitors in our Bethesda, MD office so they could show off...
View ArticleSplunk App for Active Directory and the Top 10 Issues
I work a lot with the various people who plan, deploy and support the Splunk App for Active Directory. Some issues come up quite frequently and I thought it would be a good idea to give you a roadmap...
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Removing Duplicate Consecutive Events
EXCERPT FROM “EXPLORING SPLUNK: SEARCH PROCESSING LANGUAGE (SPL) PRIMER AND COOKBOOK”. Kindle/iPad/PDF available for free, and hardcopy available for purchase at Amazon. Problem You want to group all...
View ArticleBuilding your big data reference architecture
With all of the value now being placed on data and the ability to use that data to improve customer experience, optimize revenue and enable growth in business the ability to find a way to ingest and...
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Simplifying Big Data Analytics
Most analytics and data projects have started thinking of investing in big data initiatives. With so much buzz about big data, organizations have started investing or are thinking of investing in...
View ArticleSplunk for Meaningful Use
I visited a Health Care customer recently to discuss their most important use cases for Splunk. They’ve taken a holistic approach to getting all of their application data into Splunk and it’s really...
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Why You Should Splunk Cisco UCS
About 350 people attended a webinar we did for the CiscoLive audience yesterday and it was a fantastic experience. Now, UCS is revolutionary hardware from Cisco that is taking datacenters by storm –...
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