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Splunk releases its newest report, State of Observability 2025: The Rise of a New Business Catalyst.
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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
CMDBs Explained: Configuration Management Databases
Meant to provide visibility into all IT assets, CMDBs are routinely underutilized. Learn how to plan, implement and maintain a CMDB to maximize business value.
What is ETL?
Strengthen your data foundation by knowing ETL. Short for Extract, Transform, Load, the ETL process is vital for turning all that data into business value.
All the Proxy(Not)Shells
The Splunk Threat Research Team walks through exploitation of ProxyShell and ProxyNotShell using MetaSploit, and hunts through data in Splunk to showcase different avenues for defenders to identify malicious activity.
Using MITRE ATT&CK in Splunk Security Essentials
Discover how you can use the ATT&CK framework for a wide array of use cases and to answer a wide range of questions in Splunk Security Essentials (SSE).
Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading January 2023
Welcome to the Splunk staff picks blog. Each month, Splunk security experts curate a list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read.
All of Us Can Defend Each of Us
Splunk's Global Security Strategist Mick Baccio shares his experience attending Hackers on the Hill and invites you to join him and SURGe leader, Ryan Kovar, for the Data Security Predictions 2023 webinar.
Detect Faster, Rapidly Scope an Incident, and Streamline Security Workflows with Splunk Enterprise Security 7.1
Splunk Enterprise Security 7.1 offers new capabilities to help security teams detect suspicious behavior in real-time, quickly discover the scope of an incident to respond accurately, and improve security workflow efficiencies using embedded frameworks.
Leveraging Your Data to Drive Business Outcomes and Improve Cyber Resilience
Splunk's VP of Public Sector Bill Rowan offers three strategies to consider as you plan for a new year of cybersecurity efforts.
What is Ethical Hacking?
Ethical hacking is one way to understand vulnerabilities within your system. Learn how to hack ethically, get trained and see how hacking supports security.
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