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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… The Threat Hunter’s Cookbook!
The security experts on the SURGe team have released The Threat Hunter’s Cookbook, a hands-on guide for security practitioners that features actionable insights into threat hunting methods, ready-to-use queries, and more.
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.
Cisco and Splunk Strengthen Enterprise Digital Resilience in the AI Era
Splunk announces innovations across its observability portfolio to provide organizations deeper visibility into their network health through integrations with Cisco, and faster troubleshooting with the help of AI.
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.
Enter the SOC of the Future in Splunk’s State of Security 2025
Splunk's State of Security 2025: The Stronger, Smarter SOC of the Future reveals the insights, aspirations, and challenges of security leaders.
.conf & .conf Go
.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.
Your Guide to the Observability Track for IT Operations at .conf25
Ready to reduce toil, boost reliability, and bring back real wins from .conf25? Dive into the IT Operations Learning Path — curated sessions, proven strategies, and a plan to deliver measurable impact for your team. Check it out and start building your schedule today.
Celebrate 10 Years of Boss of the SOC at .conf25
We're proud to celebrate a decade of BOTS with BOTS10 at .conf25, featuring an evening of unique experiences and surprises.
Top 5 Reasons to Attend .conf25 in Boston
Here are the top five reasons you won't want to miss Splunk .conf25 – registration is now open.
The Splunk Platform Track at .conf25: 10 Sessions You Can't Miss
Explore the Splunk Platform Track at .conf25! Discover 83 sessions on AI, data management, and digital resilience, including Cisco integrations. Accelerate your Splunk value.
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.
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Buttercup Games – Level 2: Buttercup Go data
Buttercup Games is a real web-based game originally designed as a training tool; Join Buttercup flying through caves; log in and check it out.
Buttercup Games – Level 1: The Premise
Buttercup Games is a real web-based game originally designed as a training tool; Join Buttercup flying through caves; log in and check it out.
Managing your Ingestion with the search bar
Custom searches for drilling down into data in your Splunk Cloud service; Total Ingestion Volume search over time, usage, volume by sourcetype & forwarder.
I can’t make my time range picker pick my time field.
Hadoop, Hunk or Splunk users have a choice in time field settings, can pull data from csv files, use specific searches & filters to achieve usable data subsets.
Configuring Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign On (SSO) with Splunk Cloud
Assisting customers with pre-req & integration steps for setting up ADFS-Active Directory Federation Services-SAML for Single Sign On with Splunk Cloud.
How to Create a Modular Alert
Splunk 6.3 users can use API to write modular alerts for apps-notifications, automation, info-gathering. See apps.splunk.com & the official docs for more info.
Handling HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Content-Length too large errors without pulling your hair out
Answer for dealing with HTTP Event Collector (HEC) error message 413 content too large: reset configurable pre-defined limit for max content using limits.conf.
Sending binary data to Splunk and preprocessing it
Send data, text or binary, to Splunk with PDI Protocol Data Inputs App; choose variety of protocols-HTTP POST, UDP, SockJS, TCP & more & binary data payload.
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