Splunk's Blog Posts

The world’s leading organizations trust Splunk to help keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our software solutions and services help to prevent major issues, absorb shocks and accelerate transformation. Learn what Splunk does and why customers choose Splunk.

Playbook: Investigate IP Address Performing Reconnaissance Activity
Security
1 Minute Read

Playbook: Investigate IP Address Performing Reconnaissance Activity

Phantom can receive reconnaissance alerts and automate key investigation steps to increase efficiency and speed decision making.
Buttercup Games – Level 1: The Premise
.conf & .conf Go
1 Minute Read

Buttercup Games – Level 1: The Premise

Buttercup Games is a real web-based game originally designed as a training tool; Join Buttercup flying through caves; log in and check it out.
Managing your Ingestion with the search bar
Tips & Tricks
1 Minute Read

Managing your Ingestion with the search bar

Custom searches for drilling down into data in your Splunk Cloud service; Total Ingestion Volume search over time, usage, volume by sourcetype & forwarder.
I can’t make my time range picker pick my time field.
Tips & Tricks
3 Minute Read

I can’t make my time range picker pick my time field.

Hadoop, Hunk or Splunk users have a choice in time field settings, can pull data from csv files, use specific searches & filters to achieve usable data subsets.
Configuring Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign On (SSO) with Splunk Cloud
Tips & Tricks
12 Minute Read

Configuring Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign On (SSO) with Splunk Cloud

Assisting customers with pre-req & integration steps for setting up ADFS-Active Directory Federation Services-SAML for Single Sign On with Splunk Cloud.
How to Create a Modular Alert
Tips & Tricks
10 Minute Read

How to Create a Modular Alert

Splunk 6.3 users can use API to write modular alerts for apps-notifications, automation, info-gathering. See apps.splunk.com & the official docs for more info.