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How to Simplify Your Incident Response Workflow with Splunk On-Call
Observability
5 Minute Read

How to Simplify Your Incident Response Workflow with Splunk On-Call

Splunker Jennifer Elkhouri explains how Splunk On-Call relieves on-call stress: clear alerting practices and defined workflows mitigate developer team burdens.
Hunting M365 Invaders: Dissecting Email Collection Techniques
Security
17 Minute Read

Hunting M365 Invaders: Dissecting Email Collection Techniques

The Splunk Threat Research Team describes various methods attackers may leverage to monitor mailboxes, how to simulate them and how teams can detect them using Splunk’s out-of-the-box security content.
Data Storage Costs Keeping You Up at Night? Meet Archived Metrics
Observability
3 Minute Read

Data Storage Costs Keeping You Up at Night? Meet Archived Metrics

Splunkers Joanna Zouhour and Navtej Singh introduce Splunk's Archived Metrics, storing data affordably, enhancing accessibility, and reducing costs in Metrics Pipeline Management.
Elevating Security: The Growing Importance of Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
Security
8 Minute Read

Elevating Security: The Growing Importance of Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)

Splunker Paul Agbabian shares what's new in the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and how profiles can augment the natural structure of event classes and categories.
Begin Your Trip to Observability by Packing Your Baggage With Context
Observability
6 Minute Read

Begin Your Trip to Observability by Packing Your Baggage With Context

OpenTelemetry context with baggage can help you quickly find value, errors and maybe your luggage.
Why Lingusitic and non-Linguistic AI are Complementary
Observability
9 Minute Read

Why Lingusitic and non-Linguistic AI are Complementary

Splunk’s observability strategy has always put AI functionality at the centre. We have always recognised that, in order to make actionable sense of full fidelity data metric, event, log, and trace data streams, human cognition requires an automated assist which is precisely what AI brings to the table. As a result, throughout our observability portfolio, customers will find a variety of machine learning and pattern discovery algorithms being put to work, separating signals from noise, surfacing patterns of correlation, diagnosing root causes, and enabling remedial responses to incidents. AI, itself, is, of course, evolving at a rapid clip and with AI Assist, Splunk adds Generative or linguistic AI functionality to the mix. But what is linguistic AI and how does it relate to the non-linguistic or Foundational AI that Splunk has deployed in its products to date?
Explore the AI Frontier in Splunk’s State of Security 2024
Security
3 Minute Read

Explore the AI Frontier in Splunk’s State of Security 2024

Splunk's State of Security 2024: The Race to Harness AI report reveals the insights, aspirations, and challenges of security leaders.
Availability Zones: The Complete Guide for 2026
Learn
7 Minute Read

Availability Zones: The Complete Guide for 2026

If you use cloud services, you’ll want to be familiar with availability zones, as these play a major part in your overall cloud performance. Get the full story here.
Build vs. Buy: How To Decide on Software
Learn
4 Minute Read

Build vs. Buy: How To Decide on Software

When your business needs software, you have a very important decision to make: will you build the solution yourself, or will you buy a software solution?