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Splunk releases its newest report, State of Observability 2025: The Rise of a New Business Catalyst.
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Splunk Ranked Number 1 in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management Use Cases
Splunk has been ranked as the #1 SIEM solution in all three Use Cases for the second consecutive time in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management report.
Introducing Splunk 10: Empowering a Secure and Compliant Future
Announcing the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 10.0 and Splunk Cloud Platform 10.0, the most secure, stable, and modernized platform for a digitally resilient, compliance-ready future.
Splunk Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the third year in a row.
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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
The Security Detail Download: Cyber Threats to the Manufacturing Sector
Tim Chase, Program Director at the Global Resilience Federation, joins this week’s podcast to discuss the threats he’s seeing in manufacturing.
Unveiling Splunk UBA 5.3: Power and Precision in One Package
Splunk celebrates the launch of User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 5.3, introducing the 20 Node XL cluster, innovative Splunk UBA models, and essential system and security upgrades.
That Was Easy! Manage Lookup Files and Backups With the Splunk App for Lookup File Editing
The 4.0.1 release of the App for Lookup File Editing helps users mitigate issues with new features such as a backup size limit and dashboards for tracking backup size.
What is Cloud Analytics?
Discover the power of cloud analytics, from data consolidation to scalability and security. Learn how to choose the right platform for your business needs.
From Disruptions to Resilience: The Role of Splunk Observability in Business Continuity
The future of observability will continue to rapidly evolve and Splunk Partners play a crucial role in helping customers build resilience and grow their business with Splunk.
Performance Testing: Types, Tools & Best Practices
Learn the ins and outs of performance testing — from types to metrics and tools. Ensure optimal software performance and user experience with this guide.
Exploit Kits: Explained
Explore the dark world of exploit kits — automated hacking tools available on the dark web. Learn how they exploit vulnerabilities, their dangers and possible defense strategies
Enhancements To Ingest Actions Improve Usability and Expand Searchability Wherever Your Data Lives
Along with the respective Splunk Enterprise version 9.1.0 and Splunk Cloud Version 9.0.2305 releases, Ingest Actions has launched a new set of features and capabilities that improve its usability and expand on configurability of data routed by Ingest Actions to S3.
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The Prescriptive Adoption Motions for Security and Observability offer technical expertise, best practices, and product knowledge to help you with key use cases.
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