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Drew Gibson

Drew Gibson

Tips & Tricks 1 Min Read

Handling HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Content-Length too large errors without pulling your hair out

Answer for dealing with HTTP Event Collector (HEC) error message 413 content too large: reset configurable pre-defined limit for max content using limits.conf.
Tips & Tricks 2 Min Read

Sending binary data to Splunk and preprocessing it

Send data, text or binary, to Splunk with PDI Protocol Data Inputs App; choose variety of protocols-HTTP POST, UDP, SockJS, TCP & more & binary data payload.
Tips & Tricks 1 Min Read

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.
Tips & Tricks 2 Min Read

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.
Tips & Tricks 5 Min Read

Spotting the Adversary… with Splunk

Wondering how to find the baddies in huge volumes of data? Work with Splunk & Windows event Log Monitoring – refer to table of event codes in NSA paper.
Observability 1 Min Read

Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training

Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Global Impact 6 Min Read

Astronomy Part 3: Splunk, Megastructures, and ITSI

See how Splunk IT Service Intelligence-ITSI-can monitor brightness of Milky Way 100 billion stars & provide you with real-time insights, swim lanes, metrics.
Tips & Tricks 3 Min Read

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.