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Splunk releases its newest report, State of Observability 2025: The Rise of a New Business Catalyst.
Featured Articles
MachineGPT: Speaking the Language of Machines to Shape the Future of AI
MachineGPT brings the power of generative AI to one of the most overlooked resources: machine data. Splunk SVP & GM Kamal Hathi explains why mastering data as the heartbeat of the digital world is a game changer.
Unify Observability, Surface Business Impact, and Solve Problems Using AI Agents with Latest Splunk Observability Innovations
Announcing the next set of Splunk Observability innovations we'll be demonstrating at Kubecon North America and Cisco Live Melbourne.
Splunk Advances the OpenTelemetry Project with Its Latest Donation, the OpenTelemetry Injector
Splunk announces a donation to the OpenTelemetry project that will help solve the challenges of implementation for everyone — the OpenTelemetry Injector.
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Powering and Protecting the AI Revolution: A New Era for Splunk and Cisco at .conf25
Splunk's Kamal Hathi recaps our innovation highlights from .conf25, marking a pivotal moment for Splunk and Cisco as we deliver significant new value to our customers that make the use of AI a practical reality in their organizations.
A Recap of .conf25 Splunk Observability Announcements
At .conf25, we unveiled new capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud that redefine digital resilience in the AI era with smarter detection and investigation of business-critical issues.
Splunk Enterprise Security: Built to Empower Every SOC Analyst
Announcing a transformative update to Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) with 8.2: An AI-powered SecOps platform designed to unify and accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) in one seamless experience.
Powering AI Innovation with Splunk: Meet the Cisco Data Fabric
The Cisco Data Fabric brings AI-centric advancements to the Splunk Platform, seamlessly connecting knowledge, business, and machine data.
In Case You Missed It: 2025 Splunkie Award Winners Announced at .conf25!
Cue the data-powered drumroll – here are your 2025 Splunkie Award winners announced at .conf25!
Announcing the 2025 Splunk Partner Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2025 Splunk Partner Awards winners and our entire partner community on an outstanding year!
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SIEM: Security Information & Event Management Explained
SIEM is a cybersecurity game-changer, especially for large organizations. Learn key SIEM features and functions & how to choose the right SIEM tool.
IT and Technology Spending & Budgets for 2025: Trends & Forecasts
Tech & IT spending is on the rise in 2025 across the globe. Read more on investment trends and see which regions will spend the most.
What Are SLMs? Small Language Models, Explained
Large language models have changed the world. What about small language models? Learn what SLMs are, how they differ from LLMs, and why SLMs are the future.
Telemetry 101: An Introduction To Telemetry
Telemetry is powerful data that can tell you all sorts of important information. Know what you can do with this useful data — get the full telemetry 101 here.
What are SaaS, PaaS, & IaaS?
Yes, the cloud makes work better. But which cloud model is right for you? Understand how SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS works in this ultimate guide.
What is Observability? An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll look at definitions, best practices, and key concepts around Observability in IT.
Latest Articles
How to Use LLMs for Log File Analysis: Examples, Workflows, and Best Practices
Learn how to use LLMs for log file analysis, from parsing unstructured logs to detecting anomalies, summarizing incidents, and accelerating root cause analysis.
Unlocking New Possibilities: Splunk and AWS Better Together
Discover how Splunk and AWS are revolutionizing security and AI/ML for EMEA organizations. Learn about federated search for S3, SageMaker integration, and real-world analytics innovations from the recent Splunk Partner Team event in Amsterdam.
How to Manage Planned Downtime the Right Way, with Synthetics
Planned downtime management ensures clean synthetic tests and meaningful signals during environment changes. Manage downtime the right way, with synthetics.
Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: November Recap
Discover Splunk's November security content updates, featuring enhanced Castle RAT threat detection, UAC bypass analytics, and deeper insights for validating detections on research.splunk.com.
Security Staff Picks To Read This Month, Handpicked by Splunk Experts
Our Splunk security experts share their favorite reads of the month so you can follow the most interesting, news-worthy, and innovative stories coming from the wide world of cybersecurity.
From Discovery to Defense: Detecting Local LLMs to Address Shadow AI
Uncover and defend against Shadow AI risks from local LLMs. Learn how Splunk detects unauthorized AI frameworks, prevents data leakage, and strengthens enterprise security.
Behind the Walls: Techniques and Tactics in Castle RAT Client Malware
Uncover CastleRAT malware's techniques (TTPs) and learn how to build Splunk detections using MITRE ATT&CK. Protect your network from this advanced RAT.
Beyond Deepfakes: Why Digital Provenance is Critical Now
Combat AI misinformation with digital provenance. Learn how this essential concept tracks digital asset lifecycles, ensuring content authenticity.
Introducing Splunk Victoria Experience on Google Cloud: Faster, Clearer, More Resilient
Splunk VE is now available on Google Cloud, giving organizations and admins a more transparent, responsive, and flexible Splunk Cloud Platform experience.
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