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!

If you’re using Linux, I’m sure you bumped into journald: it’s what most distros use by default for system logging. Most applications running as a service will also log to the journal. So how do you make use of these logs to: In this post, we’ll answer all the above and more. We will dive into the following topics: There are lots of other options to centralize journal entries, and lots of tools to help.

Google Cloud recently expanded the list of GSuite audit logs that you can share with your Cloud Audit Logs, part of your organization’s Google Cloud’s account. This is awesome news and allows administrators to audit and visualize their GSuite Admin and Login activity in Splunk real-time via the same method used to stream Google Cloud logs and events into Splunk, using the Google-provided Pub/Sub to Splunk Dataflow template.

In IT environments, all software applications and systems produce logs with varying levels of details or context about different events. These log files are automatically generated, and you can see them as a time-stamped record of events. Traditionally, organizations maintained logs locally or in a self-hosted setup. This was done primarily to meet various compliance mandates.

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 most of our blogs, we spend a TON of time going on about protecting our endpoints, looking at sysmon, checking the firewall, correlating IDS data and the like… Today, we're going to shift gears a bit and look at security from a different angle. Recently, there has been a tremendous focus on the shifting paradigm of a workforce that primarily resides in corporate offices, to a highly virtual workforce sitting at their kitchen tables.

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

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.