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A Trifecta of Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2015
Hat-trick. Trio. Trifecta. Three: The number of things most people can easily absorb and retell after hearing a story. So, while there were many memorable things from AWS re:Invent 2015, I’d like to...
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Using Splunk – It’s a Revolution!
I’m still coming down from the high that I experienced at .conf2015 a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. It was an outstanding event—from the great customer presentations, to the new product updates and the...
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Countdown to Splunk GovSummit 2015
Mark your calendars! The inaugural Splunk GovSummit 2015 is just one short week away. This year’s summit will take place on Thursday October 22nd at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington D.C. The...
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IoT and Flying Ponies at .conf 2015
One of the coolest demos I witnessed at Splunk .conf 2015 was the one by Nate McKervy. The reasons this demo was so cool is 1) it was live, 2) it involved audience participation, and 3) it involved...
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Drop your breaches: EMEA security sessions at .conf2015
Hi all, Recently we had our annual user conference .conf2015 at the MGM in Las Vegas. We had many European customers join us there and some of them presented the impressive things they are doing with...
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Smart AnSwerS #40
Hey there community and welcome to the 40th installment of Smart AnSwerS. The San Francisco Bay Area Splunk User Group met up last week at Splunk HQ, and we had some great topics covered. With the...
View ArticleSecurely Storing & Accessing Passwords For Alert Action Scripts
I recently helped a customer securely store and access credentials for an alert action script in Splunk Cloud and wanted to share the details. Ledion Bitincka wrote a great article about storing...
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Technology to Protect Your Technology
If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it probably will. That moment when you instinctively check your online bank account only to discover several very recent ATM withdrawals you never made. In fact, you...
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Using Splunk Solutions on Campus: EDUCAUSE 2015
In August, Splunk announced that more than 100 universities around the world are using Splunk software in their classrooms. Distinguished academic institutions including Georgetown University,...
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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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Planes, Trains, Automobiles (and Shopping). European Business Analytics at...
So far in this blog series wrapping up .conf2015 from an EMEA perspective, we’ve explained how to bring sexy back to IT Ops whilst dropping your security breaches. We wanted to wrap up with some...
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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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“Analytics Now”— A Look Back at the Inaugural Splunk GovSummit
#GovSummit in Washington DC – #countererrorism @splunk @Carahsoft pic.twitter.com/I9cU94eYNo — Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) October 22, 2015 It was a packed house at our first ever Splunk GovSummit at the...
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Improve Your Ability to Detect, Scope and Respond to Advanced Attacks with...
For as long as I’ve been in security, vendors have talked about the “emerging threat landscape” and warned organizations not to be passive or to settle for “good enough” security. Never in my career...
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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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Send JSON objects to HTTP Event Collector using our .NET Logging Library
Recently we shipped a bunch of logging libraries at the same time our new HTTP Event Collector hit the streets:...
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SplunkLive Stockholm 2015. IKEA, Statnett and Klarna
A couple of weeks ago, I was in one my favourite cities for SplunkLive Stockholm. We had a couple of hundred people in one of the most impressive rooms we’ve ever had a SplunkLive in. It felt more like...
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Data Integrity is back, baby!
I’m sitting in my living room near Boulder, and watching the Republican Presidential Debate happening right down the road at the University of Colorado. Each candidate is doing their best to portray...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #41
Hey there community and welcome to the 41st installment of Smart AnSwerS. There have been a lot of questions on Answers throughout the years asking for a way to add comments to searches such as this 3...
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Lady Gaga, Big Data and Splunk
What does Lady Gaga have in common with Big Data and Splunk? No, it’s not how she mined social media for her littlemonsters.com community, though there is a great Lady Gaga “big data” story there....
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