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Upgrade Your Splunk Instance to jQuery 3.5 in Three Simple Steps
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Upgrade Your Splunk Instance to jQuery 3.5 in Three Simple Steps

Help us make your Splunk instance more secure by upgrading your instance, dashboards, premium solutions, Splunkbase applications and private applications.
Splunk Developer Spring 2022 Update
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Splunk Developer Spring 2022 Update

Check out what's new in the latest Splunk Developer update from Splunker Tom Chavez.
Bringing the Future Forward
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Bringing the Future Forward

Get a closer look into the making and contents of a free Splunk eBook for customers called Bringing the Future Forward.
Cybersecurity and the Crisis in Ukraine
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Cybersecurity and the Crisis in Ukraine

Splunk's President of Products & Technology, Shawn Bice, shares tools, guidance and support for organizations during this crisis.
A Splunk Approach to Baselines, Statistics and Likelihoods on Big Data
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A Splunk Approach to Baselines, Statistics and Likelihoods on Big Data

This machine is sending lots of logs. Is this normal? This user has logged in at 1 am. Is this normal? We've seen a network communication with this particular signature. Is this normal? Splunker Josh Cowling explores the answers to these and other questions.
Aw, HEC! Splunking Okta's Event Hooks with the HTTP Event Collector
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Aw, HEC! Splunking Okta's Event Hooks with the HTTP Event Collector

Former Splunker and soon-to-be Okta employee James Brodsky tells you how to get Okta's Event Hook data into Splunk in 428 easy steps!
HTML Dashboards Deprecation
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HTML Dashboards Deprecation

Recently we announced that Splunk is deprecating use of older versions of jQuery and moving to use jQuery v3.5.0 or newer. This change impacts any HTML dashboards, which depend on jQuery.
Are You Skipping? Please Read!
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Are You Skipping? Please Read!

Skipped searches are a bane of existence for many Splunk Administrators. In this blog, we review the search concurrency model in Splunk and go through a systematic way to identify various reasons for skipping and how to remedy them.
Splunking Netflow with Splunk Stream - Part 2: Basic Netflow Analytics
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Splunking Netflow with Splunk Stream - Part 2: Basic Netflow Analytics

Second part of this series of collecting and indexing netflow data into Splunk using Splunk Stream. In this part we will focus on exploting indexed netflow data by performing data model accelerations and dashboarding