It’s only taken me two years, but I’ve finally answered a question that I was asked by Derek King – “Can we use ML to detect botnets?” Thanks Derek, that was a pretty heavy question to be asked in your first week at Splunk, especially when you have no Splunk experience… You can judge the results here using the Botnet App for Splunk.

Analyze both metric and event data on the same platform regardless of source or structure. With Splunk metric indexes, you can quickly and easily ingest, store, and analyze metrics — whether in the Analytics Workspace or with SPL — so you can deliver positive business results. Get the most value out of your data with Splunk.

You’ve created the perfect design for your indices and they are happily churning along. However, in the future, you may need to reconsider your initial design and update the Elasticsearch index settings. This might be to improve performance, change sharding settings, adjust for growth and manage ELK costs. Whatever the reason, Elasticsearch is flexible and allows you to change index settings. Let’s learn how to do that!

We’re excited to share that our Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ was recently recognized as the Data Analytics Solution of the Year by Data Breakthrough. We join an impressive list of innovative solutions and companies that are solving complex and critical problems and disrupting new markets and industries. Winning this achievement further validates our vision to provide a solution that is helping modern businesses thrive in today’s Intelligence Economy.

In this survey of over 200 CIOs in the US, the IDC analyses the critical role played by Log Analytics in any modern infrastructure.

As online commerce has boomed, many companies now manage a large number of revenue streams from a variety of sources including micro-transactions, single purchases, and subscription plans. Now that revenue models have become much more complex and fragmented, many companies have realized that their traditional systems simply aren’t capable of the scale and granularity required for accurate revenue monitoring.

Innovation in hypervisor technology in the early 2000’s from both commercial and open source projects was the genesis for the public cloud as we know it today. Virtualization and Moore’s law, together with advances in storage technology, mobile and wireless, created a data explosion that continues to accelerate through today.

When we made Splunk Remote Work Insights (RWI) available a few weeks ago, we knew we wanted to share the power of Splunk so any organization could use it to get insights on critical business activities and keep their remote workforces connected. We continue to receive a positive response from our customers and community, as many are leveraging the RWI dashboards and resources to help answer these key questions.

The "Q1 2020: Splunk Ideas" blog is officially live! This blog post is the first in a quarterly series that aims to educate and deliver status updates on "Splunk Ideas." In this post, I will cover the history and goals of Splunk Ideas and supply some information about our initial success. Next quarter’s post will focus on the lifecycle of an Idea, with details on our internal process of reviewing, considering, and prioritizing your ideas.