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Featured Articles
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.
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.
Machine Data: Fighting Fire With Fire for Digital Resilience
Kamal Hathi shares how Cisco and Splunk are helping organizations manage the explosion of machine data and AI-driven complexity, delivering real-time digital resilience to counter threats at machine speed and scale.
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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.conf25 Global Broadcast: The Complete Guide
Curious about the .conf Global Broadcast from Splunk? Check out this article for all the details, answers, and excitement about what to expect.
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!
Introducing Event iQ: Smarter Event Correlation in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Let AI help your team stay ahead of incidents – not buried in alerts – with Event iQ in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
Monitor the Health, Performance, and Security of Your AI Application Stack with AI Agent and AI Infrastructure Monitoring
Introducing AI Infrastructure Monitoring and AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud and AppDynamics LLM Monitoring – providing visibility and protection across your AI stack.
Strengthen SOC Defenses with Native UEBA in Splunk Enterprise Security
Splunk's enhanced UEBA capability, now natively available in ES, empowers SOCs to transition from reactive, fragmented workflows to a proactive, behavior-driven security posture.
Building the Future: Splunk Developer Sessions You Can't Miss at .conf25
Join us at .conf25 for an amazing lineup of sessions, activities, and expert staff covering best practices that are tailored to elevate your Splunk development game.
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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
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
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.
How Speaking at .conf Went From a Dream to Reality
Learn the ins and outs of being a .conf21 speaker from .conf veteran, Burch! Burch walks through the do's and don'ts of submitting to Splunk's .conf call for speakers, and will help guide you through best practices for what to do after you've been accepted.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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