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What's New in Splunk Cloud Platform
Platform
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What's New in Splunk Cloud Platform

Splunk Cloud Platform is dedicated to bringing our customers the latest Splunk platform innovations first. This blog series highlights the newest capabilities as they become available. Read on to learn about our latest release, 8.1.2013.
Taking Automation Beyond the SOC With Advanced Network Access Control
Security
2 Minute Read

Taking Automation Beyond the SOC With Advanced Network Access Control

Learn how you can scale IT operational processes and enhance network performance by leveraging security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) tools such as Splunk Phantom.
Advanced Link Analysis: Part 2 - Implementing Link Analysis
Security
4 Minute Read

Advanced Link Analysis: Part 2 - Implementing Link Analysis

Learn how to step-by-step process to building the dashboard with Sigbay Link Analysis visualization app from scratch.
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.