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How’s my driving?
It was the summer of 2014. I was well into my big data addiction thanks to Splunk. I was looking for a fix anywhere: Splunk my home? Splunk my computer usage? Splunk my health? There were so many data...
View ArticleMy Splunk Origin Story
A World Without Splunk In my pre-Splunk days, I spent significant time leading the vision for standards and automation in our company’s large distributed IBM WebSphere Network Deployment environment....
View ArticleWriting Actionable Alerts
Is your Splunk environment spamming you? Do you have so many alerts that you no longer see through the noise? Do you fear that your Splunk is losing its purpose and value because users have no choice...
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Top Technical Questions on Splunk UBA
With the acquisition of Caspida (now Splunk UBA) in July of 2015, we have been talking to many customers regarding user and entity behavioral analytics. Our customers have been asking questions about...
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Splunk and Cacti
Several options exist to bring SNMP into Splunk, with such examples as our SNMP Modular Input. But what if you already have a SNMP collection built with Cacti? You could consolidate, rebuild and...
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Splunk and the art of refrigerator maintenance.
Over the Australia Day long weekend here in sunny Brisbane, Queensland, a buddy of mine and I started noticing that his fridge didn’t seem very cold – meaning that the beer was not cold, clearly a...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #51
Hey there community and welcome to the 51st installment of Smart AnSwerS. Super Bowl 50 is making its way to the SF Bay Area next week, and traffic around HQ has been getting noticeably worse with...
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Splunk Stream on a Raspberry Pi? YES!
As a network geek, I’ve always wanted to leverage sniffers and deep packet inspection programs to understand user experience and to secure networks. I have a home lab with many virtual machines. But...
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SSO without an Active Directory or LDAP provider
(Hi all–welcome to the latest installment in the series of technical blog posts from members of the SplunkTrust, our Community MVP program. We’re very proud to have such a fantastic group of community...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #52
Hey there community and welcome to the 52nd installment of Smart AnSwerS. A BoardAtWork group was started at Splunk HQ for folks interested in, well, playing board games at work during lunch or after...
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Smart AnSwerS #53
Hey there community and welcome to the 53rd installment of Smart AnSwerS. With Super Bowl 50 madness phasing out this week, our rescheduled San Francisco Bay Area User Group meeting is a go for tonight...
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What’s next? Next-level Splunk sysadmin tasks, part 1
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Splunk Add-on > Where’s That Command – Converting a Field’s Hexadecimal Value...
When looking through Splunk’s Search Reference Manual, there are a ton of search commands with their syntax, descriptions, and examples. After all, if Splunk is the platform for machine data, there...
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What’s next? Next-level Splunk sysadmin tasks, part 2
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Smoking Hot Data…How We Splunked Barbecue
It’s true. You can Splunk just about anything. As someone who is not incredibly technically inclined, understanding the power of Splunk can be difficult to wrap my head around. I find the best way to...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #54
Hey there community and welcome to the 54th installment of Smart AnSwerS. Next Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016, we’ll be having our SplunkTrust Virtual .conf session #4 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM PST....
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What’s next? Next-level Splunk sysadmin tasks, part 3
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View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #55
Hey there community and welcome to the 55th installment of Smart AnSwerS. Next Wednesday, March 2nd @ 6:30PM, Splunk HQ will be hosting our monthly SF Bay Area User Group meeting. Since it’s during...
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Monitoring Vulnerability Deltas
A customer of mine runs daily vulnerability scans using a myriad of tools across servers and applications in their data center. As you would expect, they can use the native reporting capabilities of...
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Log-i-ness
Technological democratization (say that 3 times fast – that’s one), the power of technology to allow the budget-constrained rest-of us to do things only well funded professionals could do before, is...
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