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Splunking the World Cup 2014: Real Time Match Analysis
As an Englishman I’ve been waiting months – with very high expectations – for the World Cup to come around. Reading fellow Splunker, Matt Davies’ blog post titled, “Splunking World Cup 2014. The...
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Quantified Splunk: Tracking My Vital Signs
Last year Splunker, Ed Hunsinger, wrote a great post titled, “Go Splunk Yourself“, in which he shows how he’s using Splunk to track data from devices including a Fitbit, a Nike Fuelband, a Basis Band,...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Upload Logs to Splunk from Windows PowerShell
I had a folder full of log files I wanted to index real quick in my local instance of Splunk. They won’t persist, so the right thing to do is to use the “oneshot” command (documented here). This can be...
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Splunk Alerts: Using Gmail, Twitter, iOS, and Much More
With no programming required! One of the great features about Splunk is its built in alerting functionality. You can configure Splunk alerts to do just about anything, from sending an SMS to...
View ArticleQuick PowerShell Script to Start Splunk
Got another quick PowerShell post for you. I have a copy of Splunk running locally on my Windows 8.1 workstation. I don’t always leave it running, for obvious resource reasons, therefor I end up...
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Test-drive our new Splunk App for NetApp Bundle!
Do you like solving user and applications problems and helping your customers, but lack adequate resources? We have made it super easy for you to accelerate your journey deep into storage space! Take...
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Splunking Social Media: Tracking Tweets
So you use Twitter and have heard Splunk can do “Big Data”. By tapping into Twitter’s API you can use Splunk to investigate the stream of tweets being generated across the globe. The great thing about...
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Big data just got its Tricorder
In Star Trek a Tricorder is described as: “A Tricorder is a multifunction hand-held device useful for data sensing, analysis, and recording data, with many specialized abilities which make it an asset...
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Splunking web-pages
Have you ever had a situation where you found information on a webpage that you wanted to get into Splunk? I recently did and I wrote a free Splunk app called Website Input that makes it easy for...
View ArticleMonitoring Local Administrators on Windows Hosts
It is always gratifying when one of my readers comes to me with a problem. I love challenges. This one had to do with one of my old posts surrounding Local Administrators remotely. Of course, the way...
View ArticleProtected: Deploying Splunk Securely with Ansible Config Management – Part 1
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Calling Mobile App Builders: Bugsense is for you
A few months ago, Splunk acquired a tiny, fast growing company, Bugsense and its talented team including the founders Panos and Jon. Over the last few months, this team has been acclimatizing to the...
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Deploying Splunk Securely with Ansible Config Management – Part 1
Automation Johnny Intro More times than not I have seen corporations struggle with config management and it is key for concise mitigation and remediation plan. Interfacing with a variety of Splunk...
View ArticleSplunk + Cloudera for Hadoop–Better Together
This is a guest post contributed by Amr Awadallah, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera On July 23, my friend Todd Papaioannou and I are co-hosting a webinar on a subject that’s...
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Updating the iplocation db
When Splunk added the new version of the iplocation command in v6.0, it added the ability to add location info without the need for internet concenttivity. We did this by shipping a custom version of...
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Tracking calls and SMS with Splunk
The first thing I think of when someone mentions a call centre: “Those guys that call me at 2300 trying to sell things I didn’t even know existed”. That’s a little unfair. Call centres and...
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Splunk Command> Cluster
Being a Splunk sales engineer is incredible. I get to talk to customers about their use cases, ‘Splunk’ their data, and together discover the insight Splunk provides them. Initial demos typically...
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Updated Keyword App
Last year I created a simple app called Keyword that consists of a series of form search dashboards that perform Splunk searches in the background without having to know the Splunk search language. You...
View ArticleIndexing data from Saas solutions running on relational databases
As we began work on building the Salesforce.com app, I was again face to face with a familiar challenge…a challenge that you would encounter anytime you want to ingest structured data coming from any...
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What’s new in TA-windows 4.7.0?
If you are a Windows admin and use Splunk then you’ve likely deployed Splunk_TA_windows on your endpoints. It’s a central method for handling Windows data and has all the extractions you need to handle...
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