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Introducing the new and improved Performance Insights for Splunk, a tool for your infrastructure performance monitoring tool belt.

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Collecting docker logs and stats with Splunk

Using Splunk Light (free up to 500MB), to monitor docker environments w/o cloud, 2 Data Volume Containers, ports: 8000 web access, 9997 data fm forwarders.
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Steps for implementing Fraud Detection

Define use cases for fraud-categorize & prioritize; data & its threshold & algorithm rules, index data using Splunk SPL (search processing language) in realtime
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Making a dashboard with tabs (and searches that run when clicked)

Separate content w/ tabs in dashboards, activate tabs for searches by clicking-preventing over-showing or executing too much content at once, faster load times
Tips & Tricks 2 Min Read

Please Bypass the Database

New twist to extract/translate/load process (ETL) is Splunk & DB Connect, moving data fm DB to Splunk to Indexer machines; Create reports w/o knowing SQL & more
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Splunk Sizing Made Easy

Estimating storage size for Splunk Index can get complicated; see simply web-based tool for sizing using Mustafa’s calculation + nice interface. Check it out.
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Deploying Splunk Securely with Ansible Config Management – Part 2

3rd UK debate tracked on tweets w/o Cameron & Clegg, still talked about even when absent; Splunk tracks findings-positive, negative, overall sentiments & tweets
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Working with spreadsheets in Splunk (Excel, CSV files)

Better ways to do tedious spreadsheet searches in Splunk: import files, manipulate data using search language, use lookup for logs by matching lookup criteria.