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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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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!
Monitor Cloud-Native & Hybrid Apps and Business Transactions With Observability Cloud APM
Introducing new capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud to strengthen APM for cloud-native applications and extend support for hybrid environments.
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.
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.
Instrumentation Your Way: Introducing a Combined Splunk AppDynamics Agent
The updated AppDynamics Agent provides customers with a common agent to collect telemetry data for use in either Splunk AppDynamics or Splunk Observability Cloud.
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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
Using Splunk to Detect Sunburst Backdoor
The Sunburst Backdoor threat truly burst on the scene as a send off for 2020. The good news is that the Splunk Security team has produced detections you can run in Splunk Enterprise Security to help you protect your environment from this sophisticated threat.
Prometheus Direct Integration Comes to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
A typical Prometheus environment consists of integrations that scrape your applications for four metric types; counters, gauges, summaries, and aggregated histograms. A central server is required to pull each of the endpoint resources and aggregate them.
Experience Your Data in 3D with Splunk VR
Splunk VR unlocks a new world of possibilities for analyzing and understanding your data. Learn more about how you can leverage Splunk VR to give your workflow an infinite canvas, free your data exploration from limited monitor screens and display as much information as you want around you.
Jingle Bell SOC? Driving 127.0.0.1 for Christmas? Your IT festive jokes from Splunk
'Tis the season to be jolly. So let's kick off the holidays with a selection of Splunk's Matt Davies' finest festive Dad jokes with a geeky twist.
CI/CD Detection Engineering: Failing, Part 3
In part 3 of our now 4-part series, we walk you through how we failed to use CircleCI to continually test detentions!
Introducing Inputs Data Manager on Splunk Cloud
We're giving you an overview of introducing inputs data manager on Splunk Cloud and answering frequently asked questions.
7 High-Risk Events to Monitor Under GDPR: Lessons Learned from the ICO’s BA Penalty Notice
British Airways made the headlines when they were hacked, customer details stolen and were issued a Penalty Notice by the UK ICO. Matthias Maier took a closer look at the document and recapitulated the key takeaways any IT security person can learn from.
Admission Rules: Use Cases and Best Practices
Discover how to reduce the impact of poorly written searches by creating rules to filter such searches with the expanded capabilities of Splunk Workload Management.
Splunk Named Launch Partner of AWS Network Firewall
AWS has announced AWS Network Firewall: a new managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).
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