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Best Practices in Protecting Splunk Enterprise
Tips & Tricks
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Best Practices in Protecting Splunk Enterprise

Customers use Splunk & Splunkbase Apps for operational visibility to drive business results. Protect admin access, change passwords and define roles carefully.
Eureka! Extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields
Tips & Tricks
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Eureka! Extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields

Use of Splunk logging driver & HEC (HTTP Event Collector) grows w/ JSON-JavaScript Object Notation; Find answers on extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields.
Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Observability
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Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training

Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Configuring Nginx Load Balancer For The HTTP Event Collector
Tips & Tricks
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Configuring Nginx Load Balancer For The HTTP Event Collector

Send data to Splunk w/o a forwarder using HEC (HTTP Event Collector); Perfect for log data over HTTP or IoT. Install Nginx with HTTPS support, then configure.
What size should my Splunk license be?
Tips & Tricks
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What size should my Splunk license be?

Learn ways to estimate what size Splunk license you need. How to estimate how much data you have, asking admins, add a buffer, and try a free Splunk trial.
High Performance syslogging for Splunk using syslog-ng – Part 1
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High Performance syslogging for Splunk using syslog-ng – Part 1

Part 1: Implementing syslog with Splunk and three three scenarios you will be able to do so.