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Splunking NetFlow with Splunk Stream - Part 1: Getting NetFlow data into Splunk
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Splunking NetFlow with Splunk Stream - Part 1: Getting NetFlow data into Splunk

This blog entry will help you set up your Splunk Environment to collect and index NetFlow Data into Splunk with the help of Splunk Stream app.
Store Encrypted Secrets in a Splunk App
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Store Encrypted Secrets in a Splunk App

Does your Splunk app integrate with a third-party service or API? If so, that service might require your app’s users to authenticate using a secret.
Managing Updates to the Splunk Cloud Vetting Process
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Managing Updates to the Splunk Cloud Vetting Process

Splunk's Tedd Hellmann walks you through the changes and additions we've made to the cloud vetting process to help ensure apps running on Splunk Cloud are 'up to snuff.'
Splunk > Clara-fication: Dashboarding Best Practices
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Splunk > Clara-fication: Dashboarding Best Practices

So you want to build a better dashboard, do you? Well good, you’ve come to the right place! Learn the do's and don'ts of optimizing dashboard naming standards, layouts and more.
Enable First-Run App Configuration With Setup Pages
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Enable First-Run App Configuration With Setup Pages

Does your Splunk app require user-provided configurations to run? If so, you can use a setup page to collect and store this information
Make Your App More Secure By Updating to jQuery® Version 3.5 or Newer
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Make Your App More Secure By Updating to jQuery® Version 3.5 or Newer

Splunk will be deprecating use of older versions of jQuery and migrating to v 3.5.0 or newer. Here is what you need to know to start preparing for this upcoming migration.
Exploring the Value of your Google Cloud Logs and Metrics
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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
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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.
Dashboards Beta v0.9: All Things Inputs
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Dashboards Beta v0.9: All Things Inputs

The Splunk Dashboards app (beta) v0.9 comes with an updated UI for configuring dashboard inputs, and additional example dashboards! This blog contains tips and tricks for setting up your dashboard inputs.