Splunk @ jQuery developer summit 2012
Background jQuery developer summit is an anual opportunity to meet the entire jQuery team and learn how you can get involved in the jQuery community. They tell you how each jQuery project works,...
View ArticleSplunk 5: From Product To Platform
Splunk Enterprise 5.0 is possibly the most important Splunk release ever. It represents an important step in the evolution of Splunk into a full –fledged data platform. Now “platform” is possibly the...
View ArticleWhat’s New for Developers in Splunk 5
Splunk Enterprise 5 has a number of great features and tools to enable developers to extend and customize the power of Splunk. Splunk is a powerful, extensible data platform and we’ll continue to...
View ArticleSPLUNK 5 – WHAT IT MEANS FOR SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE USE CASES
Splunk 5 – What it means for security and compliance use cases As you may have read, today we announced Splunk Enterprise 5.0, a major upgrade to the core Splunk platform. There are many new benefits...
View ArticleSPLUNK’D! Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Data
Splunk4Good is bringing you new insights in campaign finance. We Splunked the FEC Campaign Finance Data! Check out the video: Why did we Splunk the FEC data in the first place? The magic of open data...
View Articlepredicting and detecting anomalous behavior
Splunk 5.0 brings some interesting new anomaly prediction commands to the table. While I haven’t had time to really drill into everything that’s available, I did enjoy playing with the new predict...
View ArticleBook Excerpt: Finding Specific Transactions
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 find...
View ArticleYou’re happier with fewer friends
Using the new Splunk Sentiment Analysis app I was able to correlate how positive tweets were, depending on how many people follow a twitter account. It’s a slight stretch, but essentially, are you...
View ArticleSplunk4Good announces public data project highlighting FEC Campaign Finance Data
Splunk4Good and Splunk Dev are excited to announce we have collaborated to build a public data project highlighting FEC Campaign Finance Data! Check the project out by clicking on the image above or...
View ArticleThat happened: episode 24
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: gang warfare, storage vs search, new weather data input, and new exercise trends: When you’re a...
View ArticleServer & Desktop Virtualization Admins: Binders Full of Apps!
Server and desktop virtualization professionals now have newly updated fantastic apps at their disposal – made available by our very own Citrix Technology Professionals (CTPs) –Brandon Shell and Jason...
View ArticleSplunkTalk – #68 – Trick or Treat, Splunk 5.0 is Complete!
SplunkTalk is back for its third season. Our apologies for the latency between episodes, but we’re trying to fix that. For season three we’ve got some new segments for our listeners (including stuff...
View ArticleGot pony?
Splunk’s UK office now has it’s very own pony – meet Butternut! I was visiting our UK office for 2 weeks for partner/support training. This was my first time in London so I found a few things...
View ArticleBig Data students present their Splunk projects at HQ!
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to meet with administators and educators from San Jose State University’s College of Sciences to discuss the idea of a Big Data program that would include...
View ArticleHadoop and Splunk Use cases
Customer Examples of using both Splunk and Hadoop The Splunk and Hadoop communities can benefit from each other’s strengths. Below are several examples of customers that use both environments. Use Case...
View ArticleSplunk Challenge 2012 – A Competition in Operational Intelligence
“Put 40 students in a room, give them Splunk with some data sources and see what they can come up with”, suggested Lord Lau. “Aye aye Chief”, I replied meekly. In front of Lord Lau, you have only one...
View ArticleBOOK EXCERPT: When to use “transaction” and when to use “stats”
EXCERPT FROM “EXPLORING SPLUNK: SEARCH PROCESSING LANGUAGE (SPL) PRIMER AND COOKBOOK”. Kindle/iPad/PDF available for free, and hardcopy available for purchase at Amazon. There are several ways to...
View ArticleThat happened: episode 25
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: a regex awakening, adventures in origami, that pesky apostrophe, and Chuck Norris: …And regex was...
View ArticleGot pony – APAC style!
After the pony-fication of the London office we set up a challenge for Eugenia to make our APAC office “complete”. So, she searched everywhere for the best fitting pony, but …. she had a hard time...
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