Announcing Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services
I am pleased to announce the availability of Splunk Add-On for Microsoft Cloud Services. Released on April 1st 2016, this add-on which is available on Splunkbase, provides Splunk admins the ability to...
View ArticleSplunkLive! Arrives in the Nation’s Capital
Last week we hosted one of our largest SplunkLive! events of the year. More than 1,100 people came together in downtown Washington, DC to learn how more than 11,000 companies, federal agencies,...
View ArticleRetain More Data at Lower Cost with New AWS Storage Volume Types
This is a guest post contributed by David Potes, Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services Many of the customers I work with are being asked to retain more of their logging data for longer...
View ArticleSplunk Named One of the “Best Places to Work” for Ninth Consecutive Year
At Splunk, our core values frame everything we do. We’re innovative, passionate, disruptive, open and – last but not least – fun. With values like those, it’s no wonder that the San Francisco Business...
View ArticleWhen entropy meets Shannon
This is the third post on URL analysis, please have a look at the two other posts for more context about what can be done with Splunk to analyze URLs: Splunking 1 million URLs Hunting that evil...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #60
Hey there community and welcome to the 60th installment of Smart AnSwerS. Hot off the press! The next SplunkTrust Virtual .conf Session has been scheduled for next Thursday, April 28th, 2016 @ 9:00AM...
View Article.conf2015 Highlight Series: City of LA and Splunk Cloud as a SIEM for...
Registration and call for papers is now open for Splunk .conf2016. We can’t wait to host you all at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resorts in Orlando, Florida; September 26-29, 2016. During...
View ArticleCreating a Splunk Javascript View
Once of the best things about Splunk is the ability to customize it. Splunk allows you to make your own Javascript views without imposing many limitations on you. This means you make apps that includes...
View ArticleWomen in Technology: Meet Synchrony’s Jennifer Middleton
Jennifer MiddletonSplunk Operations ManagerSynchrony Financial On the heels of Women’s History Month, it’s a great time to honor women’s contributions and launch our Women in Technology (#SplunkWiT)...
View ArticleSplunk is a force for good
The increasing sophistication and velocity of cyber threats has made cyber defense a top priority. Nowhere is this pressure more acute than with local and state governments. However, until recently,...
View ArticleAccenture and Splunk Form Alliance to Deliver Transformative Business Solutions
Strategic companies know that they can improve business outcomes by mining the vast amounts of application and operational data from back-end systems, call centers, web traffic and more. Today we...
View ArticleSplunk Light – Laguna College of Art and Design’s Log Masterpiece
When I say “log masterpiece” I am not talking about totem poles although you might be surprised at how they factor into this story. Actually what I’m talking about is what you can do when you use the...
View ArticleDevOps, Analytics and Mental Health: Notes from DevOpsDays Vancouver
Going back to Canada is always a pleasant experience for me. And when you visit Vancouver in April, it is easy to be mesmerized by this city’s majestic beauty. It includes the snow-covered mountain...
View ArticleSecurity requires visibility: Transform data into AWS security insights
As I speak with customers about their plans to leverage cloud, there is one question I hear more often than not – “How can I migrate to cloud without losing end-to-end visibility across my...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #61
Hey there community and welcome to the 61st installment of Smart AnSwerS. I just had the pleasure of joining over 60 Splunk users for the April SplunkTrust Virtual .conf session on Best Practices for...
View ArticleLessons learned from the “SWIFT” Attack
Hello, Unfortunately, somewhere in the world a big party must be going on. In February hackers successfully compromised a bank connected to the SWIFT Network in Bangladesh, stealing $81 million – as...
View ArticleHow Splunk is Supporting the Federal CDM Program: Part 2
When I last posted about Splunk and the federal Continuous Diagnostics and Migration (CDM) program, it was just kicking into high gear. In the year since, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and...
View ArticleRemove Cultural Obstacles in DevOps Adoption
It’s widely recognized that adopting DevOps principles can lead to many business benefits, including more agile and higher quality releases, and better alignment with customer needs. Unfortunately, one...
View ArticleSplunk Discovery Days
While SplunkLive! events are taking place around the globe, we have simultaneously launched our Splunk Discovery Days. The Discovery Days, which are hosted in several cities across the U.S., will...
View ArticleEnriching threat feeds with WHOIS information > Splunk
It’s almost been 2 years since I spent a summer in Seattle interning with the Splunk Security Practice (SecPrax) Team. Damn, time flies! The Splunk Security community is growing everyday, due to the...
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