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Splunk releases its newest report, State of Observability 2025: The Rise of a New Business Catalyst.
Featured Articles
MachineGPT: Speaking the Language of Machines to Shape the Future of AI
MachineGPT brings the power of generative AI to one of the most overlooked resources: machine data. Splunk SVP & GM Kamal Hathi explains why mastering data as the heartbeat of the digital world is a game changer.
Unify Observability, Surface Business Impact, and Solve Problems Using AI Agents with Latest Splunk Observability Innovations
Announcing the next set of Splunk Observability innovations we'll be demonstrating at Kubecon North America and Cisco Live Melbourne.
Splunk Advances the OpenTelemetry Project with Its Latest Donation, the OpenTelemetry Injector
Splunk announces a donation to the OpenTelemetry project that will help solve the challenges of implementation for everyone — the OpenTelemetry Injector.
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Powering and Protecting the AI Revolution: A New Era for Splunk and Cisco at .conf25
Splunk's Kamal Hathi recaps our innovation highlights from .conf25, marking a pivotal moment for Splunk and Cisco as we deliver significant new value to our customers that make the use of AI a practical reality in their organizations.
A Recap of .conf25 Splunk Observability Announcements
At .conf25, we unveiled new capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud that redefine digital resilience in the AI era with smarter detection and investigation of business-critical issues.
Splunk Enterprise Security: Built to Empower Every SOC Analyst
Announcing a transformative update to Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) with 8.2: An AI-powered SecOps platform designed to unify and accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) in one seamless experience.
Powering AI Innovation with Splunk: Meet the Cisco Data Fabric
The Cisco Data Fabric brings AI-centric advancements to the Splunk Platform, seamlessly connecting knowledge, business, and machine data.
In Case You Missed It: 2025 Splunkie Award Winners Announced at .conf25!
Cue the data-powered drumroll – here are your 2025 Splunkie Award winners announced at .conf25!
Announcing the 2025 Splunk Partner Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2025 Splunk Partner Awards winners and our entire partner community on an outstanding year!
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SIEM: Security Information & Event Management Explained
SIEM is a cybersecurity game-changer, especially for large organizations. Learn key SIEM features and functions & how to choose the right SIEM tool.
IT and Technology Spending & Budgets for 2025: Trends & Forecasts
Tech & IT spending is on the rise in 2025 across the globe. Read more on investment trends and see which regions will spend the most.
What Are SLMs? Small Language Models, Explained
Large language models have changed the world. What about small language models? Learn what SLMs are, how they differ from LLMs, and why SLMs are the future.
Telemetry 101: An Introduction To Telemetry
Telemetry is powerful data that can tell you all sorts of important information. Know what you can do with this useful data — get the full telemetry 101 here.
What are SaaS, PaaS, & IaaS?
Yes, the cloud makes work better. But which cloud model is right for you? Understand how SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS works in this ultimate guide.
What is Observability? An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll look at definitions, best practices, and key concepts around Observability in IT.
Latest Articles
Hunting M365 Invaders: Navigating the Shadows of Midnight Blizzard
The Splunk Threat Research Team outlines the attack chain detailed in the Microsoft blog, offering practical detection and hunting tips for cybersecurity defenders.
New Year, New Ideas, and New Self-Help Articles
Customers at any stage of their organizational resilience journey can benefit from the action-oriented, self-help content available free on Splunk Lantern.
Supercharge Cybersecurity Investigations with Splunk and Graphistry: A Powerful Combination for Interactive Graph Exploration
In this blog post, we'll dive deeper into how combining Splunk and Graphistry can help you unlock new capabilities for your cybersecurity investigations and gain better resilience for your organization.
Custom Metrics and their importance in Observability
Leveraging custom metrics and having complete control into how all metrics are collected and are sent into your O11y platform, is key to managing the complex modern platforms of today (and those of tomorrow!). Read more on the blog.
Short Staffed? Try Using SOAR to Augment Your Security Team
Splunk's Frank Myers looks at two industries affected by short staffing – higher education and state and local governments – and explains how Splunk SOAR can help.
ISO 27002: Information Security Controls Explained
In this article, we will look at the origin story of the ISO 27002 standard, as well as its structure, and how to apply the guidelines.
Building Large-Scale User Behavior Analytics: Data Validation and Model Monitoring
Splunk's Cui Lin explores fundamental techniques to validate data volume and monitor models to understand the size of your own UBA clusters.
What is Threat Modeling?
Get started with threat modeling today. We’ll define threat modeling, discuss how it works, and share simple and advanced threat modeling frameworks.
Add to Chrome? - Part 1: An Analysis of Chrome Browser Extension Security
An overview of SURGe research that analyzed the entire corpus of public browser extensions available on the Google Chrome Web Store.
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