Life of an IT Sysadmin Living in QA
After a career building up my IT skills elsewhere, I’ve spent the last year and a bit working within QA for Splunk. It’s been a fascinating ride, coming from being a sysadmin user of Splunk who couldn’t sway the people at the purse strings to finance a bigger license… to being a part of the dev team that has brought 4.3 to market.
I pondered at times when I was testing early versions of the UI changes that Splunk was courting a different demographic and losing touch with sysadmins. The same sysadmin/networkadmin user base that put Splunk on the map.
My concerns were myopic at best.
In testing the command line interface, getting to know REST, installing Splunk hundreds of…
Splunk App for VMware (beta) – Good things come to those who wait..
The Splunk App for VMware is now in beta. It has been one of our most popular requests and a much-searched-for app. Why? Because virtualization, as much as it allows resources to be shared more efficiently, also leads to problems being shared! Splunk customers want to be able to tie user level or application level problems with the underlying server, storage, network or virtualization layers. They want a way to make those connections easily and at scale.
Dallas Splunk Users Group – Feb 21 @ 6:00p CST
For the past couple months, Splunkers in the Dallas Metroplex area have been getting together to talk about all things Splunk. It’s turning out to be a regular pattern with a user group meeting happening about once per month now. Our next meeting will be held at the Splunk Office in Plano, Texas on Tuesday, February 21 @ 6:00p CST.
Nothing says “I love you” like a Splunk Koozie
Valentine’s Day will be here in 3 short weeks. What’s better than chocolate and flowers? Splunk Schwag of course! Make this year memorable by ordering your favorite Splunk Schwag now so that it arrives by February 14.
Happy shopping!
Web Analytics Solution from Splunk
Last week Google announced that Urchin will be closed as of March 2012. We were sorry to hear of this announcement but understand that sometimes business decisions have to be made. We also recognize the huge commitment that Google has made in this area and the role Urchin and Google Analytics have played in helping bring Web Analytics mainstream. I know some members of the original Urchin team and want to thank them for the work on Urchin which helped shape Google Analytics. Without the initial success of these tools, Web Analytics would have not made the progress we have seen over the past ten years. Today, smart organizations are starting and building products based on this data and Urchin…
Splunk Named An Application Performance Management (APM) Innovator
Recently, Gartner published a report on APM Innovators, to recognize vendors that are driving an evolution in Application Performance Management. Splunk is included in this report, even though it is not your traditional Systems or Application Monitoring tool – primarily driven by our fantastic customers who have deployed Splunk extensively to monitor their complex application environments.
This recognition is an important milestone for APM overall and for Splunk. In the past, Gartner has categorized it into 5 sub-segments – End User Experience Monitoring, Runtime Application Discovery, Modeling and Display, User-defined transaction profiling, Application deep-dive component monitoring and Analytics. However, as customers need increasingly to understand end-user experience from end to end in complex application environments, their requirements…
Introducing SplunkNews: The place to go for what you need to know about Splunk
On behalf of all of us at Splunk, I’d like to welcome you to SplunkNews, our direct channel to journalists and bloggers interested in knowing more about Splunk, our products, the issues we keep our eyes on and information we think you’ll be interested in.
Our aim at SplunkNews is to keep things as centralized as possible. Splunk has a wealth of content that we think you’ll find interesting. On a regular basis, we will bring you up date you on the latest news from Splunk and interesting vignettes that might not make it into a press release but might be worth talking about.
One item that is still very top of mind here at Splunk is last week’s rollout…
New Feature on Splunkbase: Star Ratings for Apps
Splunkbase has a new feature: Star Ratings for apps!
Splunkbase now has 229 apps and add-ons (and growing!), and it’s time for a better way for our users to see the quality of a given app at a glance. The solution? Rate your favorite apps by assigning them a star rating.
You don’t have to write a text review of an app to rate it (although we’d really appreciate your honest feedback). Just hover your mouse over the number of stars you want to give an app and click. That’s it!
If you decide to also post a review, you will see your star rating next to the review. If you change your mind later, you…
Splunk 4.3: shiny new security features
“Security! Security! Security!”
Fellow Splunkers,
Yes, the old proverb is still true – there is perhaps nothing that gets the heart racing quite like… announcing new security features in enterprise software! So fasten your seatbelt while I tell you about some of the exciting new features that made it in to Splunk 4.3.
New, easier Splunk 4.3. But don’t just take our word for it!
At Splunk, ‘dot’ releases get you a lot and our newly minted Splunk 4.3 is no exception. I’ve spoken to many 4.3 beta customers in North America, Europe and Asia and they’re all excited. Customers such as Expedia, Swisscom, Ceryx and Otto Group, to name but a few.
