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Featured Articles
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.
Latest Articles
Best Practices in Protecting Splunk Enterprise
Customers use Splunk & Splunkbase Apps for operational visibility to drive business results. Protect admin access, change passwords and define roles carefully.
Eureka! Extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields
Use of Splunk logging driver & HEC (HTTP Event Collector) grows w/ JSON-JavaScript Object Notation; Find answers on extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields.
Spotting the Adversary… with Splunk
Wondering how to find the baddies in huge volumes of data? Work with Splunk & Windows event Log Monitoring – refer to table of event codes in NSA paper.
Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Astronomy Part 3: Splunk, Megastructures, and ITSI
See how Splunk IT Service Intelligence-ITSI-can monitor brightness of Milky Way 100 billion stars & provide you with real-time insights, swim lanes, metrics.
Configuring Nginx Load Balancer For The HTTP Event Collector
Send data to Splunk w/o a forwarder using HEC (HTTP Event Collector); Perfect for log data over HTTP or IoT. Install Nginx with HTTPS support, then configure.
A Performance Analysis of Python WSGI Servers: Part 2
In part 2 of our Python WSGI Server Comparison series, we share our performance analysis benchmarks for the top 6 Python WSGI Servers, and reveal the highest performing Python WSGI Server.
An Introduction to Python WSGI Servers: Part 1
In part 1 of our Python WSGI Server series, learn what is WSGI and get information on WSGI server types, their framework, and compatibilities
What size should my Splunk license be?
Learn ways to estimate what size Splunk license you need. How to estimate how much data you have, asking admins, add a buffer, and try a free Splunk trial.
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