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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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Eureka! Extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields

Use of Splunk logging driver & HEC (HTTP Event Collector) grows w/ JSON-JavaScript Object Notation; Find answers on extracting key-value pairs from JSON fields.
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Spotting the Adversary… with Splunk

Wondering how to find the baddies in huge volumes of data? Work with Splunk & Windows event Log Monitoring – refer to table of event codes in NSA paper.
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Configuring Nginx Load Balancer For The HTTP Event Collector

Send data to Splunk w/o a forwarder using HEC (HTTP Event Collector); Perfect for log data over HTTP or IoT. Install Nginx with HTTPS support, then configure.
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What size should my Splunk license be?

Learn ways to estimate what size Splunk license you need. How to estimate how much data you have, asking admins, add a buffer, and try a free Splunk trial.
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High Performance syslogging for Splunk using syslog-ng – Part 1

Part 1: Implementing syslog with Splunk and three three scenarios you will be able to do so.
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High Performance syslogging for Splunk using syslog-ng – Part 2

Part 2: Managing multiple syslogs and what has worked in this Splunkers own experience.
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Tracing your TCP IPv4 connections with eBPF and BCC from the Linux kernel JIT-VM to Splunk

From Linux Kernel JIT-VM to Splunk: Tracing your TCP IPv4 connections with eBPF and BCC a how-to in this installment of tips and tricks.
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Enriching threat feeds with WHOIS information

Splunk Security continues to grow thanks to insight Splunk Enterprise offers for all data. Finding what’s relevant and how to use the information.
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When entropy meets Shannon

Part three on URL analysis, this post will assist you in using Splunk to detect DNS tunnels.