Paul Davies's Blog Posts

Paul is an Architect in EMEA, responsible for working closely with Splunk customers and partners to help them deliver solutions relating to ingesting data or running Splunk in the cloud. Previously, Paul worked at Cisco as a BDM for big data solutions, an Enterprise Architect at Oracle, and Consultant at Hitachi.

Exploring the Value of your Google Cloud Logs and Metrics

Tips & Tricks

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Exploring the Value of your Google Cloud Logs and Metrics

With our ability to ingest GCP logs and metrics into Splunk and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, there’s never been a better time to start driving value out of your GCP data. There’s now a pre-built set of dashboards available in a Splunkbase App: GCP Application Template for Splunk.

AWS Firehose to Splunk - Two Easy Ways to Recover Those Failed Events

Tips & Tricks

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AWS Firehose to Splunk - Two Easy Ways to Recover Those Failed Events

Kinesis Firehose is Splunk’s preferred option when collecting logs at scale from AWS Cloudwatch Logs but what about when things go wrong? This blog describes two simple options of re-ingesting these logs using Lambda functions.

Making the Collection of Centralised S3 Logs into Splunk easy with Lambda and SQS

Tips & Tricks

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Making the Collection of Centralised S3 Logs into Splunk easy with Lambda and SQS

If you got multiple AWS data sources in the same S3 bucket but struggle with efficient SNS notifications based on prefix wildcards, this article has got you covered.

Platform

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Google Cloud Platform Serverless Ingestion into Splunk

Collect data from GCP by using Splunk’s Google Cloud Platform Add-On. More about the benefits and the how-to of using a serverless push to Splunk option here.