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As a special holiday treat, the eBook version of our Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook will be available on the publisher’s website for just $5! This promotion will run from today until January 6th 2015. This is the perfect opportunity to take your Splunk skills to the next level as 2015 begins. Happy Holidays!

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Team DI wins big at Splunk Conf 2014

SplunkAwards2014Team members of Discovered Intelligence were recognized for their global Splunk domain expertise at this years’ Splunk Conference in Las Vegas, scooping no less than two awards – Splunk Ninja and Splunk Developer! Our highly skilled DI team members have now been recipients of Splunk awards since 2012. Read more

Master your Operational Data, with the Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook

SplunkOpIntelCookbookLooking to master your Operational data? Authored by leading experts from Discovered Intelligence; the new Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook provides hands-on, easy to follow recipes that will have you mastering Splunk and discovering new insights from your operational data in no time. Leveraging our years of expertise, the book is filled with best practices and packed with content, that will get you hands-on with Splunk right from the first chapter. Read more

Northern Enlightenment – Splunking Canadian Weather Extremes

When I mentioned to folks that I had an upcoming engagement in Yellowknife recently, their first reaction was to make a joke about how cold it was up there and the weather in general. For those who are not up on their Canadian geography Yellowknife is “North of 60” and is the capital of the Northwest Territories. Once home to many gold mines, it’s now the diamond capital of North America and one of the best places to see the northern lights. So, to see what I was getting myself into, I decided that I should analyze the weather data for the past decade and see how things were going to shape up. Read more

Sendresults Command for Splunk

sendresults is an immensely powerful, life-changing Splunk command developed by Discovered Intelligence, that allows you to send tabulated search results to individuals dynamically, based upon the data within the results. This means that you no longer need to hardcode an email into the search, but can evaluate the email addresses instead. Read more

Heartbleed Command for Splunk

heartbleedDiscovered Intelligence has developed a simple Splunk command for identifying Heartbleed vulnerabilities!

This CIM-Compliant Technology Add-on (TA-Heartbleed) contains a new heartbleedtest Splunk command that can be used to check your internal infrastructure and external websites for the recently announced Heartbleed vulnerability. Read more

How to Secure and Harden Splunk Enterprise

The following blog posting provides guidance on steps that can be taken to secure and harden Splunk environments. Many of the security feature essentially follow security best practices, while others would probably only be implemented if there was a business or regulatory need to do so. Read more

How to Query Hadoop in Splunk using DB Connect in 10 Simple Steps

Splunk DB Connect is designed to deliver reliable, scalable, real-time integration between Splunk Enterprise and relational databases. Essentially, it lets you query a relational database from within Splunk and return the results. As DB Connect leverages JDBC/ODBC to perform such a function, would it be possible to use DB Connect to query data sitting in Hadoop? Actually, yes… read on to find out more. Read more

Splunk’s Application for Enterprise Security Comes of Age

Splunk’s recently announced version 3.0 of its popular Splunk Application for Enterprise Security has come of age, delivering powerful functionality with a slick user experience. Read more

How to Stream Twitter into Splunk in 10 Simple Steps

So many people talk about the need to index tweets from twitter into Splunk, that I figured I would write a post to explain just how easy it is. Within 10 steps and a few minutes, you will be streaming real-time tweets into Splunk, with the fields all extracted and the twitter data fully searchable. Read more