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Running a Splunk Search in a Different Time Zone

We had a recent request to create a Splunk alert that runs hourly with a time range of midnight UTC of current date to current time.   This sounds like an easy request, but when you look into it it’s a bit more complicated than it seems.  

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Setting Up a Splunk Testing Environment Using Terraform & GCP

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Have you ever wished you had a fresh ephemeral Splunk instance that you could quickly spin up, run some tests and then kill it, with maximum speed and minimum cloud costs?

Enter Hashi Terraform to the rescue. The industry-leading infrastructure-as-code tool makes the standup, setup and teardown of cloud compute nodes simple, speedy and repeatable so that an environment can be built, a complete set of tests can be run, results received and the test nodes destroyed in minutes rather than hours.

In this whitepaper, I show how I set up my computer and built the Search Head and Deployment server, as well as how I set up the many Splunk Universal Forwarders to satisfy the test plan.

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Interesting Splunk MLTK Features for Machine Learning (ML) Development

The Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit is packed with machine learning algorithms, new visualizations, web assistant and much more. This blog sheds light on some features and commands in Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) or Core Splunk Enterprise that are lesser known and will assist you in various steps of your model creation or development. With each new release of the Splunk or Splunk MLTK a catalog of new commands are available. I attempt to highlight commands that have helped in some data science or analytical use-cases in this blog.

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Homepage for Splunk – Our New App!

Homepage for Splunk

We are pleased to announce the release of our new app, Homepage for Splunk. This Splunk certified app presents your logged in users with a ‘virtual cockpit’ that provides a single-pane-of-glass view into their specific use of Splunk.  Read more

Meta Woot! App for Splunk Demo

In this short video, we demonstrate our Discovered Intelligence Meta Woot! app for Splunk. Read more

Heartbleed Command for Splunk

heartbleedDiscovered 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. Read more