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Featured Articles
SOAR on Azure Now Available
Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) is now available as a native SaaS solution on Azure.
What Is Cyber Hygiene? Introduction, Best Practices, and Next Steps for Organizations
One approach to a cybersecurity strategy, cyber hygiene is the way of creating a structured, intelligent environment that reduces the risk of contamination.
The High Cost of Security Investigations
Splunk Asset & Risk Intelligence (ARI) can significantly reduce investigation costs, improve analyst efficiency, and accelerate threat containment.
Expanding the Splunk Academic Alliance to Nurture Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Leaders
The Splunk Academic Alliance Program offers free Splunk Enterprise licenses, training, and now Splunk ES & SOAR.
Embracing Flexibility to Do Great Work
Work in the ways that work for you. Learn how Splunkers define flexibility, and how they work with their teams to make the best work happen.
Security
Logs Are for Campfires: Integrate and Innovate With Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence
Splunker Jerald Perry explains how to stay ahead of threats with streamlined workflows and comprehensive insights into your security posture.
Exploring AI for Vulnerability Investigation and Prioritisation
Splunker James Hodgkinson explains how AI-driven tools can revolutionize vulnerability investigation and prioritization.
Supercharge Your SOC Investigations with Splunk SOAR 6.4
Splunker Nick Hunter explains how to integrate Cisco Talos threat intelligence, leverage Azure scalability, and streamline investigations.
Security Staff Picks To Read This Month, Handpicked by Splunk Experts
Every month, our Splunk staff of security experts share their favorite reads of the month — this way, you can follow the most interesting, news-worthy, and innovative stories coming from the wide world of cybersecurity.
SNARE: The Hunters Guide to Documentation
Discover the SNARE framework for effective threat hunting documentation.
Hey SDDL SDDL: Breaking Down Windows Security One ACE at a Time
Explore SDDL in Windows security with our comprehensive guide to help enhance your defensive strategy against privilege escalation attacks.
Learn
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
Managing your Ingestion with the search bar
Custom searches for drilling down into data in your Splunk Cloud service; Total Ingestion Volume search over time, usage, volume by sourcetype & forwarder.
I can’t make my time range picker pick my time field.
Hadoop, Hunk or Splunk users have a choice in time field settings, can pull data from csv files, use specific searches & filters to achieve usable data subsets.
Configuring Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign On (SSO) with Splunk Cloud
Assisting customers with pre-req & integration steps for setting up ADFS-Active Directory Federation Services-SAML for Single Sign On with Splunk Cloud.
How to Create a Modular Alert
Splunk 6.3 users can use API to write modular alerts for apps-notifications, automation, info-gathering. See apps.splunk.com & the official docs for more info.
Handling HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Content-Length too large errors without pulling your hair out
Answer for dealing with HTTP Event Collector (HEC) error message 413 content too large: reset configurable pre-defined limit for max content using limits.conf.
Sending binary data to Splunk and preprocessing it
Send data, text or binary, to Splunk with PDI Protocol Data Inputs App; choose variety of protocols-HTTP POST, UDP, SockJS, TCP & more & binary data payload.
Best Practices in Protecting Splunk Enterprise
Customers use Splunk & Splunkbase Apps for operational visibility to drive business results. Protect admin access, change passwords and define roles carefully.
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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