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Splunking Drupal

Posted by Hani Atalla on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 10:12 Best Practices, Cool Tools, Drupal, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Drupal, Syslog, e-commerce

Drupal developers rely on various logging systems to troubleshoot and investigate Drupal exceptions and errors. We can use frontend Apache/Nginx access and error logs along with native PHP logs. But, unquestionably, the Drupal database logging module is at the core of these logging frameworks because it captures all triggers to internal Drupal hooks, events, and activities occurring on the Drupal site. Drupal's database logging framework is the bucket that captures not only the operations of the different modules (core...

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Introducing Luna, Combining the Power of Splunk and Slack!

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 10:01 Operational Intelligence function1, Products, Splunk, Slack, tools, Bots

Introducing Luna

We're excited to announce the launch of Luna, the tool that lets teams interact with Splunk from within Slack. Luna allows organizations to access reporting and analytics from Splunk without ever leaving the Slack application. Luna's users can enter Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries or Splunk report names in Slack and the results (in the form of data visualizations) are then displayed inside of their Slack channel.  
 

What can Luna do for you?  

Let's take a look at the features that make Luna so...
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A Complete Guide to Understanding the Splunk Add-on Builder

Posted by Christopher Makepeace on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 12:41 Development Splunk, Add-on, App, Development, Modular Input, Alerts

In this post, we'll walk through the ins and outs of the Splunk Add-on Builder. Not only does the Splunk Add-on Builder help users avoid common pitfalls during app development, it also validates apps according to best practices and app certification standards.  

On the app homepage, you'll see every add-on created using the Splunk Add-on Builder, along with those already installed on the instance. An Add-on Builder project is an editable add-on along with its meta data. Beyond editing capabilities, you're also able to export projects for use with other instances of Add-on Builder....

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Using C3.js to Create a Custom Visualization in Splunk

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - 10:13 Development, Operational Intelligence Splunk, c3, data visualization, D3, chart, custom

Introduction

Data visualizations in Splunk are an extremely powerful way to analyze and derive value from the mountains of data collected every day. Today, I’d like to cover how to create a custom visualization in Splunk using the C3.js library, which is built on top of the extremely popular and powerful D3.js data visualization library. One of the advantages of using C3 is that the syntax is somewhat simpler to use than D3. While “D3” stands for “Data-drive Documents,” “C3” stands for “Comfortable,...

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Meet the Slack App for Splunk

Posted by Neena Bhutiani on Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 10:01 Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence Slack, Splunk, App, tools, function1, Operational Intelligence, productivity

We're excited to announce the release of our new Slack App for Splunk! The Slack App for Splunk helps to gain insight into your company’s Slack environment.

The app seamlessly monitors your team's Slack activity by leveraging the Slack App for Splunk’s modular inputs. The messages generated in your public Slack channels are collected and indexed into Splunk, ready for reporting!

The Slack App for Splunk also provides prebuilt dashboards for Slack monitoring. The app effortlessly track metrics including: where and how often your users are logging in and what channels are being...

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Brute Force Attacks: Splunk Detection and Analytics

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 11:22 Best Practices, Data Security, Operational Intelligence Brute force, Splunk, Security, Detection and Analytics, Web Application Security

Intro

One of the longest-standing and most common challenges to both information security and web development teams is the brute force attack. Although this form of attack has been around for many years, it is still one of the most popular and widely used password-cracking methods. In terms of impact, brute force attacks are a very serious threat capable of affecting millions of accounts. If these attacks are not detected and addressed in a timely manner they can lead to theft of intellectual property and personally identifiable information, significant financial losses,...

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Fighting Financial Fraud with Splunk

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 13:23 Best Practices, Function1, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Fraud, Security, Operational Intelligence, banking, finance

Introduction

It comes as no surprise that as the banking industry is increasing its online presence, financial organizations are making fraud detection and prevention a top priority. Fraud can have a significant impact to organizations both financially and operationally. Of course, in addition to large monetary losses, damage to reputation and customer relations can also occur that further highlight the impact of fraud.

The ability for organizations to perform advanced analytics on their data is necessary to recognize and respond to patterns of fraud. Simply stated, quicker...

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