Splunk Blogs
Here are the most recent blog postings 
Splunk Dashboards outside of Splunk (part 2)
I recently blogged about a cool open source tool which is a Splunk Dashboard. In less than an hour, you could easily bring up a central dashboard to visually oversee Splunk administration duties. Here is a basic review of how to get the dashboard working, in combination with the Check Splunk tool. Prerequesites: spdash checksplunk crontab competency ssh competency web server competency cgi-bin competency Even if you are not very familiar with the above items, there is plenty of information available on the web to get things going. The README files that come along with the tools are very… Read More »
Using Splunk to Trace SOA Applications
I have mentioned in past blog entries that Splunk can be used to contribute to the governance and indexing of Service Oriented Architectures. In this post, I will discuss a more common issue that pertains to log management, operations support, and troubleshooting. In a typical SOA deployment, you may have a situation where a user logs into a web site for procurement or purchasing, which kicks off a series of steps handled by different servers using heterogeneous technologies. One flow may include a web server, which initiates the request and sends a message to an application server. The… Read More »
Splunk won the Best of Interop Tokyo 2009
米スプランク社製ITサーチエンジン「Splunk for Enterprise」 ネットワーク機器の輸入、開発、販売を手がける マクニカネットワークス株式会社 （以下 マクニカネットワークス、本社：神奈川県横浜市港北区新横浜1-5-5、代表取締役社長：宮袋 正啓）は、この度、2009年6月8日～12日に開催されたInterop Tokyo 2009において、マクニカネットワークスの取り扱う米スプランク社製ITサーチエンジン「Splunk for Enterprise」がBest of Show… Read More »
Using Splunk in a Screen Saver
Sometimes users of Splunk like to have Splunk tell them what is happening with their infrastructure without doing an ad-hoc search. The most obvious way to accomplish this is to use Splunk Alerts. An alert gets generated for a saved search that is executed over a configured period and matches user defined conditions. Now suppose you want to visually just watch a saved search run on periodic basis. One approach would be to have the Splunk Web application in the browser auto refresh itself. If the requirement is that you would like this to appear full screen in real time for others to see… Read More »
The Great Firewall of China: Internet Censorship Run Wild
The past couple of days I've been visiting China meeting with some of our technology and channel partners. It just so happens I was present in Beijing for the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Events. Yes it really did happen despite what the Chinese government says. Speaking on Saturday at the F5 APAC Sales Kickoff I found myself staying over the weekend with Sunday off to roam around Beijing like a tourist, something I rarely get a chance to do on business trips. It is amazing to me to see how the Chinese and Taiwanese work on Saturdays. In the US we rarely see that… Read More »
Around the world, around the world
We've been having some great success stateside recently at Splunk, but the fun doesn't stop there. Oh no. We have good news from the land of the rising sun...Splunk won Best of Show at Interop Tokyo. If you can read Japanese, you can read more about it here. Later this week I'll recap our SplunkLive South Africa events… Read More »