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Zip code mapping
I had a GSI partner recently ask me if they could map zip codes on the Google maps app. It was pretty straight forward, the only issue was finding a good data set for the zip code lookup. I thought it...
View ArticleWhat’s going on with AWS and Splunk…
All of my posts seem to be sparked by some sort of customer interaction. The last few have been about how to do something, but this one is about what we are doing. A customer recently asked: ”What...
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An easy way to generate sample data
Have you ever had a Splunk project that required a data feed, but for whatever reason it wasn’t practical to tap into the source itself? Examples of this could be; You are working on a PoC and need to...
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Hunk: Raw data to analytics in < 60 minutes
Finally, I got a bit of down time to sit down and get to the third part of the “Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Intro” series of blogs, a follow up to part 1 and part 2 Summary of what we’ll do 1....
View ArticleMonitoring Local Administrators on Remote Windows Systems
One of our field people asked me if we could use the Splunk App for Active Directory to monitor Local Administrators on a list of hosts. The Splunk App for Active Directory monitors domain...
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That happened: episode 35
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: it’s been a while, so here’s an extra-long edition. .conf 2013 is around the corner! Some...
View ArticleDetecting Your Hypervisor from within a Windows Guest OS
Let’s face it – most of our applications run on hypervisors – Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware or Citrix XenServer seem to be the top contenders. This makes our technology stacks that much more complex since...
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Welcome to the new Splunk Apps site!
Hi All – Many of you are familiar with Splunkbase, the site that has been host to both Splunk Answers Q&A and Splunk Apps. To date, Splunkbase has been a very popular resource, serving thousands of...
View ArticleDetecting Fraud
I sometimes get asked if Spunk can detect fraud. The answer is yes, but the question is broad and needs an understanding of the situation that needs to be detected before making a generalization. Fraud...
View ArticleSplunk Universal Forwarders and the Domain User
One of the things that you have to decide right up front on Windows is how to run the Universal Forwarder. For most situations, running as the Local System account is adequate, providing access to all...
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The Splunk App for VMware v3.0 has arrived
It seems like I just blogged about the general availability of the Splunk App for VMware 2.0. With typical Splunk speed, I’m here to introduce you to the latest and greatest of our now generally...
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Getting manufacturing data into splunk
Quality, Quality, Quality Because of quality-related product defects, three world-wide recalls by Toyota during late 2009 and early 2010 cost the company billions of dollars and decreased sales....
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That happened: episode 36
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: And first, a message from our sponsor*: Today is the deadline to nominate for the Splunk...
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Introducing Weblog Add-on
Another exciting day at Splunk and another great product release! I am thrilled to announce the release of Weblog Add-on. During .conf2011, we announced beta release of Splunk App for Web...
View ArticlePowerShell version 2
By now, you are probably aware that I love PowerShell as a method of getting things on Windows. It’s your one stop method for getting all sorts of nice things. However, our SA-ModularInput-PowerShell...
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Splunking Foursquare
I tend to travel quite a bit in my role at Splunk.The other day I was wondering to myself how far I had traveled in the last week , the last month , the last year. It just so happens that I am a...
View ArticleExporting Large Results Sets to CSV
You want to get data out of Splunk. So you do the search you want and create the table you want in the search app. The results are hundreds of thousands of rows, which is good. So you click on the...
View ArticleMonitoring Scheduled Tasks with PowerShell
I did the unthinkable yesterday. I combed through my posts for non-spam comments. I apologize to everyone whom I didn’t answer – we get a lot of comment spam that I have to wade through when I do this....
View ArticleExport Search Results with PowerShell
A while back, I wrote an introduction to how you could play with our C# SDK from PowerShell. And just the other day, Adrian wrote a post talking about how you could export really large result sets to...
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Adventures with SNMP and Cisco Nexus (Part 1)
I’ve recently been working with the Splunk SNMP Modular Input and some Cisco Nexus switches to see what sort of data and information I could gather using just the SNMP collector. It has been an...
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