Splunk detects ransomeware with Splunk Add-on for MS Sysmon, Universal Forwarder & tweaking spam/AV filters, running scripts & searching for new encrypted files
Custom searches for drilling down into data in your Splunk Cloud service; Total Ingestion Volume search over time, usage, volume by sourcetype & forwarder.
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.
Assisting customers with pre-req & integration steps for setting up ADFS-Active Directory Federation Services-SAML for Single Sign On with Splunk Cloud.
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.