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One source, many use cases: How to deliver value right away by addressing...
Do you remember this piece of raw data: I hope so, it was on the blog only last week … 😉 Today, let’s focus on the value we can extract and how we’ll be able to address some of the IT challenges...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #66
Hey there community and welcome to the 66th installment of Smart AnSwerS. Splunk HQ now has an open room with giant Lego like blocks for Splunkers to take a creative escape from the daily grind. Some...
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DevOps Metrics: Measuring Team Productivity – Yes or No?
In my last blog post, I talked about the importance of measuring the business impact of DevOps-driven application delivery. At the DevOpsDays Seattle Open Space discussion on metrics, we also explored...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #67
Hey there community and welcome to the 67th installment of Smart AnSwerS. For folks who will be in the San Francisco Bay Area the first full week of July, you’re all welcome to join us at the SFBA User...
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Spotting the Adversary… with Splunk
Howdy Ya’ll. Eventually there is a Rubicon to cross in every Security professional’s life. With a satisfied sigh he’ll take a step back from the keyboard, wipe Dorito dust covered hands on khakis, take...
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Supporting a cycling world record attempt using analytics
It’s not every day that you get to be involved in a record attempt, but Splunk is currently supporting a team of four cyclists in their quest to break the world record for a team cycling from the West...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #68
Hey there community and welcome to the 68th installment of Smart AnSwerS. It’s the week of LGBT Pride in San Francisco, so SplunQers and fellow allies came together yesterday afternoon for our second...
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Eureka! Extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields
With the rise of HEC (and with our new Splunk logging driver), we’re seeing more and more of you, our beloved Splunk customers, pushing JSON over the wire to your Splunk instances. One common question...
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Splunking a Microsoft Word document for metadata and content analysis
The Big Data ecosystem is nowadays often abbreviated with ‘V’s. The 3Vs of Big Data, or the 4Vs of Big Data, even the 5Vs of Big Data! However many ‘V’s are used, two are always dedicated to Volume and...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #69
Hey there community and welcome to the 69th installment of Smart AnSwerS. Time has been flying by with Splunkers working incredibly hard and adapting to new changes in our office space. It’s hard to...
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Gaining clarity: adding a visual line break between events
(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 ArticleHow to Pick a Threat Intelligence Provider (kind of…)
Over my last two years-ish at Spunk I’ve been asked the question “Which threat intelligence feed should I purchase?” and “whats the deal with the viking helmet?” and “whats up with the Star Wars theme...
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Best Practices in Protecting Splunk Enterprise
Splunk Enterprise helps companies collect, analyze, and act upon the data generated by their technology infrastructure, security systems and business applications. Customers use Splunk software to...
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Docker? Amazon ECS? Splunk? How they now all seamlessly work together
Today the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) team announced they have added the Splunk native logging driver to the newest version of the ECS agent. This means it’s now easier to implement a...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #70
Hey there community and welcome to the 70th installment of Smart AnSwerS. Since expanding Splunk HQ with the addition of the new building next door, things have been eerily quiet as you walk through...
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If your plants could speak to you, what would they say?
I’m pretty sure mine would say “Hey Bozo, thanks for drowning me to death” or “Must… have… water… What is this, the Sahara?” Oh, and also “I hate it here, what’s it take to get some morning sun?” I...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #71
Hey there community and welcome to the 71st installment of Smart AnSwerS. There’s a lot of hustle and bustle going on as Splunkers, partners, and customers are preparing and reviewing presentations for...
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Sending binary data to Splunk and preprocessing it
A while ago I released an App on Splunkbase called Protocol Data Inputs (PDI) that allows you to send text or binary data to Splunk via many different protocols and dynamically apply pre processors to...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #72
Hey there community and welcome to the 72nd installment of Smart AnSwerS. The “Where Will Your Karma Take You” contest has been underway for two weeks now on Splunk Answers, and there is just a little...
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Send data to Splunk via an authenticated TCP Input
Wow , my second blog in 24 hrs about Protocol Data Inputs(PDI) , but sometimes you just infected with ideas and have to roll with it. So my latest headbump is about sending text or binary data to...
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