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Using Cribl Search to Monitor Instances in GCP

Using Cribl Search to Monitor Instances in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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One recurring challenge in managing cloud environments is the tendency for lab and development instances to remain active long after they’re needed. While it might seem like a small oversight, the impact can be significant. These idle instances rack up unnecessary costs, drain valuable resources, and open the door to security vulnerabilities. Configuring effective monitoring to notify about the running instances is a good way to address this problem.

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Setting Up a Splunk Testing Environment Using Terraform & GCP

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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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Building a Unified View: Integrating Google Cloud Platform Events with Splunk

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By: Carlos Moreno Buitrago and Anoop Ramachandran

In this blog we will talk about the processes and the options we have to collect the GCP events and we will see how to collect those in Splunk. In addition, we will even add integration with Cribl, as an optional step, in order to facilitate and optimize the process of information ingestion. After synthesizing all of this great information, you will have a great understanding of the available options to take, depending on the conditions of the project or team in which you work.

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