On the second Tuesday of each month, Splunkers in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex area have been getting together on a regular basis to talk about all things Splunk. Seems the users are able to take advantage of spending just a couple hours with each other, trading notes about Splunk, helping each other solve problems with our Splunk deployments and configurations, and sharing a beer and pizza too.
If you are interested in attending now, please click this link below for details:

http://www.meetup.com/Splunk/Plano-TX

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Wow! Splunk can do so many things! I wonder just how far I can go with it? How far can it really take me?”

It’s true. Your data may seem static from a literal perspective, but from a creative perspective, your data can take you places you never thought you could go.

For example:
- What if you could pick winning lottery numbers?
- What if you could create an app that allows you to log human activity, not just machine activity?
- What if you could easily normalize two or more different sets of data and then compare each of their distributions all on the same graph? Wow! Wouldn’t your boss be impressed?!

Come join me and the rest of the worldwide Splunkers and see just where your data can take you on your #datajourney of a lifetime @Splunk’s users conference 2012. Sign up by 6/15, save $200 http://bit.ly/splconf

On the second Tuesday of each month, Splunkers in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex area have been getting together on a regular basis to talk about all things Splunk. Seems the users are able to take advantage of spending just a couple hours with each other, trading notes about Splunk, helping each other solve problems with our Splunk deployments and configurations, and sharing a beer and pizza too.

BTW, we are 40 members and counting now!

Our next meeting will be held at the Splunk Office in Plano, Texas on Tuesday, June 12th @ 6:00p CST.

Did you know that my data mames me healthier? Yeah, I exported my year-long history of daily caloric intake, weight measurements, and amount of water consumption from my LiveStrong.com account and splunked it all.

On the second Tuesday of each month, Splunkers in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex area have been getting together on a regular basis to talk about all things Splunk. Seems the users are able to take advantage of spending just a couple hours with each other, trading notes about Splunk, helping each other solve problems with our Splunk deployments and configurations, and sharing a beer and pizza too.

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.

Last month I attended the very first Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area Splunk users group and it was a great experience. I met several new Splunk customers as well as reunited with a couple existing ones that I hadn’t seen in a while. It was nice all around and I learned a lot. (http://www.meetup.com/Splunk/Plano-TX)

If you attended my technical presentation @ the Splunk 2010 users.conf event last called “Splunking Outside The Box“, then you’re probably aware of just how esoteric my thinking can be when it comes to creatively leveraging Splunk for the more non-sensible, yet highly educational use cases.

For example, I showed-off my Splunk for Texas Lotto App, which my team here @ Splunk uses each month to pick our “winning” numbers.

So far, we’ve won about $26…but we’ve spent ten times that amount along the way. But that’s beside the point.

Anyway, at this year’s conference I am hoping to avoid those everyday boring run-of-the-mill searches and get you thinking outside the box yet again.

Yes, I…

DFW Splunk User Group – Who’s In?

splunk> take the sh out of IT.

IMHO, this is our all-time best, most clever, and probably our most requested Splunk tag line (and Splunk t-shirt).

I will go as far as to say that this tag line, in some ways, put Splunk on the map in the minds of our earliest customers and still continues to imprint itself on our customers today more than ever (and probably will for a long time too).

And as you may be aware, other Splunk tag lines include:

• splunk> Finding your faults, just like mom.
• splunk> because ninjas are too busy
• splunk> All batbelt. No tights.

But what I really want to say…