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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
Splunk Synthetics in Observability Terraform Provider Released
Reap the benefits of Splunk Synthetics and Monitoring as Code with the Splunk Synthetics Terraform Provider for Splunk Observability resources.
Splunk Open Source: What To Know
Get the latest on open-source products and solutions from Splunk, plus a ton of excellent, free (!!), hands-on resources for exploring with Splunk.
A Global Day of Service: Building Community Resilience Drives Social Impact
On Friday, March 17, 2023, the Black Employees Achieve More at Splunk (BEAMS) and Womxn+ Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) partnered to host Splunk’s first-ever Global Day of Service.
What Is Data Resilience?
You’ve got data, plenty of it. The question is whether you’re maximizing it. If your data isn’t serving your customers, then you need to build data resilience.
Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading March 2023
In this month's Staff Picks blog, our Splunk security experts curate a list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read.
Bring Order to On-call Chaos With Splunk Incident Intelligence
Discover how Splunk can help bring order to on-call chaos with Splunk Incident Intelligence, a team-based incident response solution that connects the right on-call staff to the actionable data they need.
AsyncRAT Crusade: Detections and Defense
The Splunk Threat Research Team explores detections and defense against the Microsoft OneNote AsyncRAT malware campaign.
Data Denormalization: The Complete Guide
To normalize or not normalize your data. Decide here, as we explain why you’d denormalize data (faster query times!) but also the reasons to avoid it.
My Username Fields Have Passwords in Them! What Do I Do?
Sometimes, users put their password into a username field and it gets logged into Splunk – learn how to identify this behavior and remediate it with SOAR.
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