Getting data from your REST APIs into Splunk
Overview More and more products,services and platforms these days are exposing their data and functionality via RESTful APIs. REST really has emerged over previous architectural approaches as the...
View ArticleCommand Modular Input
Simplifying the status quo I’m often thinking about potential sources of data for Splunk and how to facilitate getting this data into Splunk in the simplest manner possible. And what better source of...
View ArticleMaking SNMP Simpler
Overview From Wikipedia : Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an “Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks”. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers,...
View ArticleThe Splunk SDK for Python gets modular input support
Support for modular inputs in Splunk 5.0 and later enables you to add new types of inputs to Splunk that are treated as native Splunk inputs. Last week Jon announced updates to the Splunk SDKs for...
View ArticleSplunking the World Cup 2014: Real Time Match Analysis
As an Englishman I’ve been waiting months – with very high expectations – for the World Cup to come around. Reading fellow Splunker, Matt Davies’ blog post titled, “Splunking World Cup 2014. The...
View ArticleSplunking Social Media: Tracking Tweets
So you use Twitter and have heard Splunk can do “Big Data”. By tapping into Twitter’s API you can use Splunk to investigate the stream of tweets being generated across the globe. The great thing about...
View ArticleSplunking web-pages
Have you ever had a situation where you found information on a webpage that you wanted to get into Splunk? I recently did and I wrote a free Splunk app called Website Input that makes it easy for...
View ArticleNew support for authoring modular inputs in Node.js
Modular inputs allow you to teach Splunk Enterprise new ways to pull in events from internal systems, third party APIs or even devices. Modular Inputs extend Splunk Enterprise and are deployed on the...
View ArticleCustom Message Handling and HEC Timestamps with the Kafka Modular Input
Custom Message Handling If you are a follower of any of my Modular Inputs on Splunkbase , you may see that I employ a similar design pattern across all of my offerings. That being the ability to...
View ArticleHow’s my driving?
It was the summer of 2014. I was well into my big data addiction thanks to Splunk. I was looking for a fix anywhere: Splunk my home? Splunk my computer usage? Splunk my health? There were so many data...
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