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Dude! Did you see that YouTube video?
NOTE: Rather than read this post, you can come see this use case presented live at our upcoming Worldwide User Conference in Las Vegas. My colleague Andrew Gerber from Wipro will be reviewing this and...
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Finding shellshock (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) with Splunk forwarders
UPDATE 9/24/14 (evening): I changed the script a little bit to include platform information in the output by using the uname command and bash version information in the output with –version. This...
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Updated Traffic App
A few years ago, I created a publicly available traffic app for monitoring traffic incidents in major US cities configured by user. Since then, the provider of the feed has cut down on the number of...
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Give the gift of karma…at .conf!
Are you a Splunk Answers user? Are you attending Splunk’s 5th Worldwide User Conference next week in Las Vegas? Do you want a way to show your appreciation for other .conf attendees, presenters,...
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Mainframe machine data in Splunk – Made way easier!
In the past, IT professionals have had to maintain specialized and expensive tools to monitor their mainframes. Mainframe operational insights are important but even more so in the context of the rest...
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Get your Community on at .conf2014!
Community is HUGE at Splunk, and we’re doing it up big at this year’s .conf with our own gigantic Community Lounge. Here’s a sampling of what’s in the works: Masters of IRC panel discussion Wednesday,...
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Live in Vegas – Splunk Operational Analytics for Networking and SDNs
Are you going to .conf2014: The Fifth Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference? Do not miss our “Splunk Operational Analytics for Networking and SDNs” session on Wednesday, October 8th, 10:30 AM!...
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Look at all the pretty colors!
Well, it’s Sunday here in Las Vegas, and .conf2014 is about to go down. I’m sitting in one of our Splunk University classes at the MGM, with many of our fine customers. The class is our Power User...
View ArticleHow to boost your apps performance with insights from virtualization and...
Are you getting the most out of your virtualized infrastructure investment? If your critical applications are suddenly running slow, how do you identify where exactly and how widespread is the issue...
View ArticleIntegrating Active Directory into Splunk with SA-ldapsearch
On Tuesday, I introduced one of the first presentations at .conf2014 – a major update to the SA-ldapsearch app. This new app has now launched and you can download it at...
View ArticleRDP to Windows Server from a Splunk Dashboard – Example Code
A while back, I wrote blog post explaining how to RDP to a Windows Server from a Splunk Dashboard. The steps involved the following: Create a Controller – this generates the .rdp file on the server...
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Now Time For the Splunk Weather Forecast
If you were at .conf last week you would have likely seen some of the exciting Internet of Things projects people are using Splunk for. I think Ed Hunsinger put it best: So far I’ve heard about...
View ArticleUsing Alerts to Send Data to Amazon S3
A customer recently asked me to prove a concept where Splunk could see a certain type of incoming event and then pass information from that event into their Amazon S3 storage. I knew that Splunk could...
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Shining a Light on Industrial Data
Enabling Insights from Industrial Data and the Internet of Things This week we announced that our technology partner, Kepware Technologies, released the Industrial Data Forwarder (IDF) for Splunk as...
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Splunk and Synthetic Monitoring
Monitoring your Web Application is not always an easy task. The challenge is even bigger when you want to be proactive about monitoring your application. How can you detect application performance...
View ArticleDon’t Forget to CIM! Or, How I Learned to Love Tags
Let me tell you a little story about something which I learned (or re-learned!) today. For the impatient, you can read Jack’s previous article on building technology add-ons, and go learn CIM (which...
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Detecting outages caused by unauthorized changes
Splunk is a great solution to search, investigate as well as monitor your IT environment, whether it is application, infrastructure or network related. One perplexing issue to detect is related to...
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What can you get for $10.74 / hour ?
Why $10.74 you may ask? Well, that’s the minimum hourly wage in San Francisco (at least as of this writing Nov 2014) … With that out of the way let’s see what else you could get for $10.74/hour … you...
View ArticleSplunk 6.2 Feature Overview: XML Event Logs
We’ve been (rightly) criticized for a couple of things in recent years. Firstly, when you configure a Windows Event Log, it’s too big. This is because we combine the event log object with the message...
View ArticleSplunk 6.2 Feature Overview: Perfmon Delocalization
Last week, I covered the XML Event Logs – an awesome feature that will reduce your data ingest, increase the fidelity of the data that is stored and allow us to work with localized data. Today, I want...
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