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Buttercup Games – Level 1: The Premise
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Secure Splunk Web in Five Minutes Using Let’s Encrypt
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Secure Splunk Web in Five Minutes Using Let’s Encrypt

Sending binary data to Splunk and preprocessing it
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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.
Best Practices in Protecting Splunk Enterprise
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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.