Simon O'Brien's Blog Posts

I am a passionate Splunker, traveller, family man, cook, basketballer, social advocate and security professional. I have the best job in the world, and live in the best place in the world.

APAC BOTS Day 2022
Security
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APAC BOTS Day 2022

Welcome to Splunk APAC BOTS Day 2022!
Boss of the SOC (BOTS!) at .conf21 Virtual
.conf & .conf Go
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Boss of the SOC (BOTS!) at .conf21 Virtual

Grace and the team at Frothly are back! Get in on the fun and join Boss of the SOC (BOTS!) at .conf21 virtual.
Splunking DNS Using Splunk Stream – AKA, The Easy Way
Tips & Tricks
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Splunking DNS Using Splunk Stream – AKA, The Easy Way

NS is one of the most powerful data sources to ingest into Splunk for analytics, security or IT operations use cases or business operations insights.
Installing and Managing Splunk Stream in a Distributed Environment
Tips & Tricks
5 Minute Read

Installing and Managing Splunk Stream in a Distributed Environment

An overview of installing Splunk Stream in a distributed environment
Splunk Metrics via Telegraf
Observability
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Splunk Metrics via Telegraf

There are many ways of generating metrics and sending them to Splunk, but this blog post will focus on Telegraf as a means to achieve this.