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SplunkLive! London Calling – Shazam, John Lewis and the NHS. Should I stay or...
As with most of my blog posts, apologies for the title. It isn’t often you can combine big data and The Clash. It doesn’t seem long since last year’s event but SplunkLive! London is here again. We’ve...
View ArticleSplunk 6.4 – Using CORS and SSL settings with HTTP Event Collector
Summary In Splunk 6.4.x and beyond CORS and SSL settings for HTTP Event Collector are dedicated. To use CORS and SSL in 6.4, you must configure the new settings which are located in the [http] stanza...
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Coca-Cola North America Named to InformationWeek Elite 100
Today, we are pleased to announce that one of our valued customers, Coca-Cola North America Information Technology, has been selected as a Business Innovator in the Productivity category in this year’s...
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Tracing your TCP IPv4 connections with eBPF and BCC from the Linux kernel...
Starting with Linux Kernel 4.1, an interesting feature got merged: eBPF. For anyone playing with network, BPF should sound familiar: it is a filtering system available to user-space tools such as...
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Overcoming Cybersecurity Resource Challenges in Government
At a hearing on cybersecurity and protecting taxpayer information held by the Senate Finance Committee last month, the IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, testified that the agency faces the loss of key...
View ArticleHigh Performance syslogging for Splunk using syslog-ng – Part 1
Today I am going to discuss a subject that I consider to be extremely critical to any Splunk’s successful deployment. What is the best method of capturing syslog events into Splunk? As you probably...
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Smart AnSwerS #62
Hey there community and welcome to the 62nd installment of Smart AnSwerS. There’s a lot of hustle and bustle going on at Splunk today as we will be expanding HQ with a brand new building next door!...
View ArticleHigh Performance syslogging for Splunk using syslog-ng – Part 2
As I mentioned in part one of this blog, I managed a sizable deployment of Splunk/Syslog servers (2.5TB/day). I had 8 syslog-ng engines in 3 geographically separate data centers. Hong Kong, London and...
View ArticleWhat size should my Splunk license be?
This is a pretty common question in Splunkland. Maybe you’re an admin wondering how much license you’ll need to handle this new data source you have in mind for a great new use case. Or you’re a...
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PostFinance banks on Splunk to improve fraud detection
When I’m thinking about Switzerland, I often think of the Swiss Alps, great chocolate and the famous Swiss army knife. The flexibility of the Swiss army knife reminds me how Swiss bank PostFinance is...
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Zillow Finds Its Way Home With Splunk
With prices on the rise and more younger people than ever moving back home, jumping into the real estate market might seem like a daunting proposition. I’m speaking from first-hand experience here...
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Humanizing Security Data Visualization
Visualizing and displaying complex data is hard. Understanding complex data is harder. Rapidly making operational decisions based upon complex data is extremely hard. Historically, operational security...
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My Journey with DevOps at Splunk
Ten months ago, I took the journey from being an Openstack/ Tooling Engineer and entered the world of Sales Engineering at Splunk. I wanted to continue to maintain my development skills and help...
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Splunking Continuous REST Data
One of the ways vendors expose machine data is via REST. There are a couple of ways to get REST data into Splunk today: Use Damien Dallimore’s REST API Modular Input Use the new Splunk Add-on Builder...
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Box Plots: Making Custom Visualizations
This is the first of a two part series on implementing Box Plots in Splunk for security use cases. Analyzing complex data is difficult, which is why people use Splunk. Sometimes patterns in data are...
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Smart AnSwerS #63
Hey there community and welcome to the 63rd installment of Smart AnSwerS. With Splunk HQ officially more than two times larger, and Splunkers now spread out across more square footage, things have...
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SplunkLive! London – A Full House. Analytics, IT Operations And Security.
Last week I was lucky enough to be in London for our annual SplunkLive! where we had a full house in terms of standing room only and Splunk customer speakers covering each of our main use cases: NHS...
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A Vertu-ous circle – a DevOps case study of smartphones, machine data and Splunk
There’s a lot of talk about DevOps at the moment. Splunk’s part in this story is to help make the most of the machine data across the DevOps ecosystem. We’re helping customers to use data to ensure...
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Splunk GovSummit UK 2016: Refusing to Sleepwalk to Cyber Crisis
Last week, Splunk hosted two simultaneous events in London, England. You can learn more about SplunkLive! London in Matt Davies’ blog post: SplunkLive! London – A Full House. Analytics, IT Operations...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #64
Hey there community and welcome to the 64th installment of Smart AnSwerS. One of the Splunk Cloud support engineers left on vacation last week, so in true Splunk fashion, his desk is getting a complete...
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