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Luna Wins Splunk's 2017 Innovation Award

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Monday, October 9, 2017 - 09:37 Function1, Operational Intelligence luna, Splunk, Slack, Splunk App, Operational Intelligence

From the Search Party, to the keynotes, to the captivating technical sessions, Splunk .conf17 was definitely one for the books (not to mention the record books, with more than 7,000 Splunkers in attendance)! One of our favorite moments of the week was when our CEO, Ashish, was presented with Splunk's 2017 Revolution Innovation Award for Luna, our Operational Intelligence app that integrates Slack and...

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Splunk .conf 2017: Key Takeaways (Part 2)

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Friday, October 6, 2017 - 13:13 Function1, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Splunk .conf, .conf2017, function1, Operational Intelligence

In case you missed it, I recently caught up with Splunk .conf pro, Neena Bhutiani, to see how .conf2017 measured up to years past. But what about a different perspective: someone who's never been to Splunk .conf?

For that point of view, I spoke with two first-time .conf attendees: Karthik Subramanian and Somen De (who, spoiler alert: both also happened to be presenters, as...

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Don't Miss These Two Sessions at Splunk .conf2017

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 08:23 Function1, Operational Intelligence function1, Splunk, Splunk .conf, .conf2017, Operational Intelligence

This week, our team (along with 6,000 of our closest friends / Operational Intelligence enthusiasts) is descending on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., for the 8th Annual Splunk Conference (aka Splunk .conf). From Monday, September 25th through Thursday, September 28th, attendees will be deciding between more than 200 technical sessions that promise to expand skillsets while...

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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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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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Collecting Data from ServiceNow in Splunk

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 10:21 Operational Intelligence Splunk, REST API, Add-on, ServiceNow, Big data, Operational Intelligence

Let's discuss how to collect data from your ServiceNow instance in Splunk. First, what is ServiceNow? ServiceNow is a maker of service management software that can be on-prem or in the cloud. Organizational use of ServiceNow ranges from standard IT help desk ticketing systems to legal service management. These organizations may want to collect data from their ServiceNow instance for security auditing or operational awareness of their deployment. ServiceNow exposes a REST API that can be used to extract this data.

Scenario

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Splunk 6.5 Under the Hood: Clustering Enhancements

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 - 09:18 Operational Intelligence Splunk, Splunk 6.5, Operational Intelligence, Clustering

Intro

By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the release of Splunk Enterprise 6.5. Those of you who were at .conf 2016 got to see many of the new features during the keynotes, in sessions, and at the various booths.

Splunk Enterprise 6.5 brings lots of great enhancements related to user experience such as table datasets, conditional table formatting, dashboard editing, and enhanced search/SPL assistance. For those of you who have not had a chance to see some of the new features yet, I encourage you to check out this short video: ...

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Stepping Up with Splunk!

Posted by Elizabeth Makepeace on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 09:08 Function1 Operational Intelligence, Splunk, Splunk 6.4, Visualizations, Wellness Program, Cool Tools

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it in yourself.” –Edmund Lee

 

Splunk is an extremely versatile application, dissecting everything from a small csv file to multiple terabytes of data. I am a member of Function1’s Wellness Team as well as a part of the OI Practice. This year, the Wellness Team has decided to revamp itself and I thought Splunk would be a great tool to utilize to track our progress and feedback from...

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