How Government Healthcare Agencies Should Approach Their Vulnerabilities
The pressures government healthcare agencies have felt for years are surfacing aggressively. This is due, in part, to recent data hacks and the need to protect sensitive information, but the increasing...
View ArticleSimple steps to getting started with Splunk for Customer Experience
In the previous post, I shared an amazing use of Splunk at Comcast for improving user experience. You can also access a replay of the webinar: “How Comcast Improves Mobile App and Video Experience with...
View ArticleSplunk at Ubisoft: Play on, player!
One of my all-time favorite Seinfeld episodes is the one where George will do anything to maintain his top score status on Frogger. But power supply and traffic get in the way – literally. Fast...
View ArticleIntegrating Splunk with Docker, CoreOS, and JournalD
Hal here, your friendly Lorax and developer evangelist! I wanted to share with everyone a guest post from a Splunker whom I met and see regularly at the Metro Atlanta Splunk User Group, Robert Labrie....
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #21
Hey there Community and welcome to the 21st installment of Smart AnSwerS. I just got an email this week about a Cinco de Mayo party at the office, which would have been my first at the company. Sadly,...
View ArticleIndexing Data from Salesforce Objects in Splunk
In one of my previous posts, I talked about the Splunk App for Salesforce and how it helps you poll Salesforce “Event Log File” which are the Salesforce access logs/events. I have been getting a lot of...
View ArticleVirtual Gov Day: What Did You Miss?
Last Wednesday marked our first Virtual Gov Day webinar, hosted by Carahsoft, where Splunk experts and customers showed attendees how valuable machine data can be in addressing daily IT challenges....
View ArticleRelating Add-ons to CIM
Something we’ve been interested in for a while now is tools to help you see whether a model is being populated or not. For instance, the latest version of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security...
View ArticleCaching Hadoop Data with Splunk and Hunk
Although Hadoop is good at processing a large amount of data, it is not the fastest platform. Below are a list of options that Splunk and Hunk can offer to speed up the retrieval of results and lower...
View ArticleLet’s Get Technical: Splunk Enterprise 6.2
Do You Know Splunk? Webcast Series Kick off! What’s New in Splunk Enterprise 6.2? Last week we launched our Do You Know Splunk? webcast series. The series will provide attendees with insight on the...
View Article.conf2014 Highlight Series: Getting Deeper Insights into your Virtualization...
.conf2015 registration is open! .conf2015 call for papers and speakers ends tomorrow – May 8! As we get closer to .conf2015: The 6th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference in Las Vegas in...
View ArticleZillow developing on Splunk
The Splunk Developer platform allows extending the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise by building your custom solutions. One of the ways to extend Splunk is to implement custom search commands,...
View Article.conf2014 Highlight Series: Detecting Fraud and Suspicious Events Using Risk...
.conf2015 registration is open! We’re excited to continue our series of .conf2014 #TBT highlights, especially as we get closer to .conf2015: The 6th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference in Las...
View ArticleInstasplunk
They say a picture is worth 1000 words. Actually it’s far more than that. Take an Instagram image, there is tons of useful metadata behind the image – not just that tasty picture of what you had for...
View ArticleTop Five Insights about Splunk Cloud
One of the things I really like about attending industry events and conferences around the world is the opportunity to speak with certain members of the press face to face in small group settings. We...
View ArticleSplunkLive! Chicago: A Great Day for Splunkers and Blackhawks Fans
What brings IT leaders back to SplunkLive! events year after year is hearing from our talented customers about ways that they drive value within their organizations using Splunk. This month’s...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #22
Hey there community and welcome back to Smart AnSwerS, the 22nd installment of its kind. I just got back to the office from a two week vacation to find my desk surrounded by a jungle of plants, my...
View ArticleRaw Threat Intel Docs in Enterprise Security 3.3
For those that would like to visibly see a raw version of STIX/OpenIOC docs being consumed by the Threat Intel Framework in Enterprise Security 3.3, I thought I’d post a bit of an unofficial work...
View Article.conf2014 Highlight Series: Lesser Known Commands in Splunk Search Processing...
.conf2015 registration is open! As we get closer to .conf2015: The 6th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference in Las Vegas this September, we’re excited to continue our series of .conf2014...
View ArticleHunk – Delivering Value to Your Business
Regardless of your title, if your job involves preparing data stored mainly in HDFS among other stores, so that your end-users can query and visualize it, Hunk is probably right for you. Two common...
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