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We’re Back, Buttercup!
.conf & .conf Go
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We’re Back, Buttercup!

It's that time of year again. .conf is back and will be both in-person and online programs. Check out this full blog to get more details about .conf21.
Splunk Developer Spring 2021 Update
Observability
3 Minute Read

Splunk Developer Spring 2021 Update

What’s the latest from Splunk Developer? New SDK release, Setup Pages doc updates, search on dev.splunk.com, .conf21 Call For Speakers coming and more!
Detecting AWS IAM Privilege Escalation
Security
3 Minute Read

Detecting AWS IAM Privilege Escalation

The Splunk Threat Research team develops security research to help SOC analysts detect adversaries attempting to escalate their privileges and gain elevated access to AWS resources. Learn how we simulate these attacks using Atomic Red Team, collect and analyze the AWS cloudtrail logs, and utilize pre-packaged Splunk detections to detect these threats.
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Python v1.0.0
Observability
7 Minute Read

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Python v1.0.0

Since the OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification reached 1.0.0 — guaranteeing long-term stability for the tracing portion of the OpenTelemetry clients, the community has been busy working to get the SDKs and APIs for popular programming language ready to be GA. Next in our ‘Getting Started with OpenTelemetry’ Series, we’ll walk you through instrumenting a Python application and install both the OpenTelemetry API and SDK.
Splunk > Clara-fication: Dashboarding Best Practices
Tips & Tricks
9 Minute Read

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.
Life as a PM on the Splunk Machine Learning Team
Splunk Life
4 Minute Read

Life as a PM on the Splunk Machine Learning Team

Get a personal view from a new PM on the Splunk machine learning (ML) team. We touch on the experience of being a totally remote new-hire and first impressions of the ML portfolio.
Enable First-Run App Configuration With Setup Pages
Tips & Tricks
4 Minute Read

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
Low Latency Observability Into AWS Services With Splunk
Observability
4 Minute Read

Low Latency Observability Into AWS Services With Splunk

We are excited to announce our collaboration with AWS in launching Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams to bring real-time observability into AWS services for our joint customers.
Exploratory Data Analysis for Anomaly Detection
Platform
4 Minute Read

Exploratory Data Analysis for Anomaly Detection

With great choice comes great responsibility. One of the most frequent questions we encounter when speaking about anomaly detection is how do I choose the best approach for identifying anomalies in my data? The simplest answer to this question is one of the dark arts of data science: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).