Community

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Featured topics

Troubleshooting your Splunk installation

• Troubleshooting scheduled saved searches
• Troubleshoot Monitor Inputs
• Troubleshooting WMI Issues
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Deploying Splunk

Find information about the components of a Splunk deployment, your options when deploying, what choices you have with respect to high availability, and information about tuning factors.

• Estimating your storage requirements (Official Splunk documentation)
• Components of a Splunk deployment (Official Splunk documentation)
• Planning your Splunk deployment (Official Splunk documentation)
• Models for Splunk deployment
• High availability and Splunk
• Splunk tuning factors
• Hardware tuning factors
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Getting data into Splunk

• Data input options
• Considerations for deciding how to get data from Windows hosts
• Working with UDP connections
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Searching, alerting, and reporting

• Useful regex for masking credit card numbers in your data
• An example of using the list lookup feature for HTTP status lookups
• Searching for surrounding events
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Security and compliance with Splunk

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Application monitoring and troubleshooting with Splunk

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Infrastructure and operations with Splunk

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Integrating Splunk with other tools

• Use Splunk alerts with scripts to create a ticket in your ticketing system
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Migrating Splunk

• Migrating a Splunk install
• What to expect when migrating to Splunk 4.0 (Official Splunk documentation)
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Customizing Splunk Web

• 4.0 Splunk Web development
• Customize your app's look and feel (Official Splunk documentation)
• See all topics about customizing Splunk Web and add your own...

Using Splunk's APIs and SDKs

• See all topics about Splunk's APIs and SDKs and add your own...

Using Splunk apps and add-ons

Coming soon:

• Splunk-supported apps
• Partner-supported apps
• Community-supported apps