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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM
Last week, Splunk was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). For the MQ, Gartner evaluated Splunk® Enterprise and the Splunk App for Enterprise...
View ArticleThat happened: episode 33
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: docs are better with lens flare, some of the best jokes don’t need linebreaking, the .secret of...
View ArticleSplunkLive! DC: Helping Government Make Sense of Machine Data
There are a select number of U.S. cities dominated by certain industries that ultimately help to define those cities. Detroit for cars, Nashville for country music, Pittsburgh for the Steelers and...
View ArticleQuick n’ Dirty: Splunk Form Cheat Sheet
Have you ever made a terrific dashboard in Splunk and then thought…”Hmm, this is such a great dashboard, but I wish I could filter it for a subset of this data” or “hmmm….this dashboard should win an...
View ArticleThe Splunk SDKs for C#, PHP and Ruby have arrived
We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Splunk Development Kits (SDKs) for C#, PHP and Ruby. Coupled with the Splunk SDKs for Java, Python and JavaScript, developers are now fully...
View ArticleDeveloping Modular Inputs in C#: Part 2
I’m annoyed at our engineering team, but I’ll get over it. You see, just hours after I posted my first blog post on writing modular inputs in C#, the team up in Seattle released the latest edition of...
View ArticlePlaying with the Splunk C# SDK–from PowerShell
As those who know me know, I Am Not A Developer. I could convincingly play one on TV, but that’s not the point. The point is this: I don’t have a copy of Visual Studio, and I don’t want to! When in...
View ArticleRunning as a Windows Service
There are some things that are just plain difficult on a Windows box. Take, for example, debugging Splunk scripted inputs. It seems simple enough. But Splunk runs as a Windows Service and is usually...
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Splunk on Splunk 3.0 Now Live!
Hello Splunk Admins of the world, we are extremely excited to announce the general availability of the Splunk on Splunk app, version 3.0. S.o.S, the app that enables you to see inside your Splunks,...
View ArticleSplunkIt v2.0.2 Results & EC2 Storage Comparisons
With a new version of SplunkIt out the door, it was time to get new benchmark numbers, both for EC2 and the commodity hardware we tested in previous posts. Now that SplunkIt is compatible with Windows...
View ArticleThoughts from Microsoft TechEd North America
Splunk was an exhibitor at this years TechEd North America in New Orleans, and was lucky enough to not only hand out t-shirts, but also to give numerous demos, talk to some extraordinary customers and...
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Splunk Powers Up With jQuery!
Splunk is happy to announce that we will be a Diamond level sponsor of the 2013 jQuery Portland Conference on June 13 & 14. This is shaping up to be the best jQuery event to date, so if you haven’t...
View ArticleImporting SharePoint ULS Logs
We like logs – no shock there. However, system administrators also like logs. Some of the most difficult logs to work with come from the Microsoft world. I’ve seen DNS debug logs in Active Directory,...
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Mobile Analytics (iOS) with Storm
As those who have been following articles about mobile analytics with Storm and Splunk already know, there’s been demand for an iOS library to help iOS app developers to debug their apps. I’m happy to...
View ArticleMonitoring Processes on Windows
We get a lot of questions here at the Splunk Microsoft Practice – not just on our apps (which are awesome starting points for common Microsoft workloads), but also how to do specific things in Windows....
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Command Modular Input
Simplifying the status quo I’m often thinking about potential sources of data for Splunk and how to facilitate getting this data into Splunk in the simplest manner possible. And what better source of...
View ArticleHunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Intro – Part 1
As you might have already seen, we recently announced the beta availability of our latest product, Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. In this post I will cover some of the basic technology aspects of...
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Making SNMP Simpler
Overview From Wikipedia : Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an “Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks”. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers,...
View ArticleCatching Errors in PowerShell
I’ve been recently writing a lot of PowerShell for the SA-ModularInput-PowerShell addon. It’s amazingly flexible at capturing data that is embedded in the .NET framework and many Microsoft products...
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That happened: episode 34
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: a twofers+ edition! Maintaining a healthy relationship with #splunk, regexes and tan pantyhose,...
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