What’s new in Splunk 6.3? The release of Splunk Enterprise 6.3 saw improvements in performance, management and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Data integrity control, intelligent job scheduling, custom alert actions, geospatial visualization, anomaly detection and the addition of the HTTP event collector are only a few of the new features available in 6.3. This […]
As of Splunk 6.2, there is a Key-Value (KV) store baked into the Splunk Search Head. The Splunk KV store leverages MongoDB under the covers and among other things, can be leveraged for lookups and state tables. Better yet, unlike regular Splunk CSV lookups, you can actually update individual rows in the lookup without rebuilding the entire lookup – […]
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As a special holiday treat, the eBook version of our Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook will be available on the publisher’s website for just $5! This promotion will run from today until January 6th 2015. This is the perfect opportunity to take your Splunk skills to the next level as 2015 begins. Happy Holidays! Click […]
Team members of Discovered Intelligence were recognized for their global Splunk domain expertise at this years’ Splunk Conference in Las Vegas, scooping no less than two awards – Splunk Ninja and Splunk Developer! Our highly skilled DI team members have now been recipients of Splunk awards since 2012.
Looking to master your Operational data? Authored by leading experts from Discovered Intelligence; the new Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook provides hands-on, easy to follow recipes that will have you mastering Splunk and discovering new insights from your operational data in no time. Leveraging our years of expertise, the book is filled with best practices and packed […]
When I mentioned to folks that I had an upcoming engagement in Yellowknife recently, their first reaction was to make a joke about how cold it was up there and the weather in general. For those who are not up on their Canadian geography Yellowknife is “North of 60” and is the capital of the […]
sendresults is an immensely powerful, life-changing Splunk command developed by Discovered Intelligence, that allows you to send tabulated search results to individuals dynamically, based upon the data within the results. This means that you no longer need to hardcode an email into the search, but can evaluate the email addresses instead.
Discovered Intelligence has developed a simple Splunk command for identifying Heartbleed vulnerabilities! This CIM-Compliant Technology Add-on (TA-Heartbleed) contains a new heartbleedtest Splunk command that can be used to check your internal infrastructure and external websites for the recently announced Heartbleed vulnerability.
The following blog posting provides guidance on steps that can be taken to secure and harden Splunk environments. Many of the security feature essentially follow security best practices, while others would probably only be implemented if there was a business or regulatory need to do so.
