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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
Supplementary Security Advisory for Splunk Apps/Add-ons
This security advisory specifically pertains to Apps/Add-ons (i.e. Extensions) to Splunk Products for CVE 2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046.
Splunk SOAR Playbooks: TruSTAR Indicator Enrichment
Learn about the TruSTAR Indicator Enrichment playbook, providing a strong foundation for utilizing threat intelligence in SOAR.
Enabling the Self Driving Cloud with Splunk Observability Cloud and GKE Autopilot
Announcing Splunk's Observability Cloud and OpenTelemetry upcoming support for GKE Autopilot
Log4Shell - Detecting Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) Continued
Good news, you can use Splunk to proactively hunt using Network Traffic and DNS query logs data sources to detect potential Log4Shell exploit. From Splunk SURGe, learn even more detections against CVE-2021-44228.
Splunk Cloud Self-Service: Announcing The New Admin Config Service API For Private Applications
Learn more about how customers can leverage the new ACS private app management to gain more value from their Splunk deployment.
Splunk Security Advisory for Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 and others)
Splunk is currently reviewing our supported products for impact and evaluating options for remediation and/or or mitigation.Please return to this posting for the most up to date information.
Active Directory Lateral Movement Detection: Threat Research Release, November 2021
The Splunk Threat Research Team recently updated the Active Directory Lateral Movement analytic story to help security operations center (SOC) analysts detect adversaries executing these techniques within Windows Active Directory (AD) environments.
Log4Shell - Detecting Log4j 2 RCE Using Splunk
A serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the popular open source Apache Log4j logging library poses a threat to thousands of applications and third-party services that leverage this library. From Splunk SURGe, learn how you can detect Log4j 2 RCE using Splunk.
High Five: The Latest Integrations from Splunk, Microsoft and GitHub
Get the latest on new integrations from Splunk, Microsoft and GitHub in this roundup on the latest updates.
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