Blogs: Splunkers
Here are the most recent blog postings.
Splunk is _piping_ hot!
That's right! It's "on fire" folks! Hotter than the sun! Burning its way into the thoughts and minds and data centers across the world. Unfortunately, what I wanted to talk about today is not related to how hot Splunk is, but rather a very special and sometimes misunderstood character called "the pipe". For most of us tech geek types, the pipe is our friend. We use it all the time at the command-line to make efficient use of our tools and our time. For non-techie folks, it may be more mysterious or intimidating concept, so I felt it might be a good topic to discuss and demonstrate just what… Read More »
Splunk Ninja - EVENTually I will be TYPEcast
Welcome to another episode of Splunk Ninja. I received and email from a customer yesterday indicating they wanted a better way to deal with "noise" in their logs. For this customer, filtering out events prior to them being indexed was not the answer - they need to retain every event, but not necessarily deal with them. It brought me to a component of Splunk's technology, that in my unscientfic survey, not too many customers use very often. Event Types. While you can read all about them in our documentation, I figured i'd give you my thoughts, explain them in terms that I myself can… Read More »
Human and Machine Language Mashups at Splunk Live Zurich, Switzerland
At Splunk Live in Zurich this week an interesting discussion erupted about human and machine languages. Before I continue with the story, I want to thank everyone that attended the event. Despite the fact that Raffy Marty is a resident celebrity, this was our first formal customer and partner event in Switzerland. We had more than 50 people attend for several hours to talk about Splunk and data center management challenges. The event was co-hosted by T-Systems. Thank you Meno Schnapauff for your great presentation on how T-Systems and the Swiss National Railway are using Splunk! Other… Read More »
Recording of performance tuning talk now available
The recording of "When Times Get Tough, The Tough Get Tuning: Improve the Performance of Your Linux Systems" is now available on both: O'Reilly's webcast site O'Reilly's youtube channel… Read More »
Got Salesforce, Got Mac.. need help. Here you go!
Since we've recently switched over to Salesforce.com, which I'm pretty satisfied with. I've been searching for tools that help me interact with Salesforce.com via the software on my Mac, such as "Microsoft Entourage 2008″ and my favorite application "Quicksilver" Simon Fell, over at PocketSoap.com has created a bunch of tools for the Mac user that help integrate Salesforce.com with the stuff you do locally on your Mac. Maildrop Maildrop is pretty cool, because it logs you in, and integrates with Entourage. It adds a special menu that provides functionality for Notes, Events, Cases… Read More »
Splunk Voted Fastest Growing Company in Silicon Valley
I've just returned from the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards dinner where Splunk was selected as the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley. Delloite, Silicon Valley Bank, Korn Ferry International, Cornish & Carey, Cooley Goward Kronish and adb Insurance Services were the sponsors of this year's competition and we thank them all for the award. I was joined at the awards dinner by my two co-founders Erik Swan and Rob Das. What a great ride it has been over the past four and a half years. The time has flown by so quickly and it seems like we still have so much more to do. But… Read More »