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Splunking Websphere MQ Queues and Topics
What is Websphere MQ IBM Websphere MQ , formerly known as MQSeries , is IBM’s Message Oriented Middleware offering and has been the most widely implemented system for messaging across multiple...
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Modular Inputs Tools
Tools I’m a tools kind of a guy. I like things that make my life easier or allow me to accomplish some task that would be otherwise prohibitive. I also like Tool the band , but that’s another blog. And...
View ArticleDeveloping Modular Inputs in C# – Part 1
One of the cool new features of Splunk 5.0 is modular inputs, and we’ve already seen some great examples of this, such as the built-in perfmon gathering modular input and the Splunk Addon for...
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Learn More about PowerShell and Modular Inputs
For over five years, I have been working with co-host Jonathan Walz on the PowerScripting Podcast, a weekly Internet radio show. The primary topic of the show is the Windows PowerShell scripting...
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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...
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Command 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...
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Making 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 ArticleDeveloping Modular Inputs in C#: Part 2
I’m annoyed at our engineering team, but I’ll get over it. You see, just hours after I posted my first blog post on writing modular inputs in C#, the team up in Seattle released the latest edition of...
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...
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Splunking 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...
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Splunking 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...
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Splunking 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...
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New 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...
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Custom 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...
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How’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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