In the previous article “Mobile Analytics with Storm“, we discussed how to configure the logging library for mobile apps to send stacktrace messages to Storm via REST API. To make this logging library more usable and robust, mobile app developers are now able to send invaluable stacktrace messages via TCP (through the Network Inputs option). The configuration steps are incredibly simple and are summarized using the diagram shown below:

1. Click at “Network data” to enable Storm to receive data via TCP
2. Click at “Authorize your IP address” so that Storm is receiving data from authorized IP address(es). Please take note of the “IP/Port combination” in “Send data to” – we are going

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The logging library for Android is now added with an option to reroute the crash logs into Splunk Enterprise. Yes, crash logs from Android mobile devices into Splunk Enterprise.

This is a logging library developed for mobile app developers to allow better visibility of their apps; particularly to address the instrumentation of crash logs. Bottom-line, no more guessing what kind of errors that end users experience with your mobile apps on their phones. Ensure the highest quality of your apps by harnessing realtime analytics Splunk Storm provides.

To all .conf attendees, thank you for attending my presentation today. It was really heart-warming to see the strong support from you. The room reached full-occupancy within minutes!

To those that missed this session, there will be an encore session to talk about the internals of the concept viz app. We’ll look at the design and then dive straight into the codes:

Visualizing your Big Data
Castellana 1
Thursday, Sept 13, 2012
11:45am -12:15 pm

See you tomorrow and we’ll see how far your BIG data take you in your journey!
Follow me at @nicholaskey or http://blogs.splunk.com/author/nkey

Is that possible at all? At Splunk, we are constantly experimenting ways to make Splunk more usable. This new approach allows users to “talk” to Splunk (with a microphone) and transforms natural language into Splunk search command.

Notice the small little microphone icon in the textfield? That small little icon unlocks a huge potential to make splunk more user friendly.

Interested to learn more about this concept app?
Come join us at the Chalk-talk session on
Monday, September 10, 2012
5pm – 7pm
Gracia Commons, Level 3 Cosmopolitan Hotel

Here’s a thought. “Visualizing the content in the /etc/apps directory of your Splunk instance”. Is that possible with Splunk? There’s an app for that.

Here’s a sneak preview of the app …

Come join us and learn more in the Developing on Splunk sessions at .conf!

Hello! How may I help you? Hmmm … you want to visualize your indexed data with other means other than the traditional pie charts, bar charts and tables? I see … and you want to have full control to integrate external tools and plugins into your app because you are feeling adventurous? Is that possible with Splunk?

APPS-olutely!

Come join us and learn more in the Developing on Splunk sessions at .conf!

Let’s discover together the interesting yet easy to understand approach in developing custom apps that work seamlessly with Splunk as your data platform. Explore the ways how to make use of external tools to visualize your events as illustrated below:

Psstt … Is geolocation ready in the latest release of the Splunk for Facebook app? Yes! To those who have been following the progress of this app and curious to know if the idea mentioned (geolocating activities in Facebook and visualizing them) in the previous post Splunk for Facebook – event updates with geolocation is implemented and how it is implemented, this is how it looks like.

Short story: Activities with geo-coordinates (latitude and longitude) will be marked on the map. Individual marker will pop up as the cursor is moved around the correlated individual result in the results section.

Long story: Quite technical but the steps will be described as terse and as simple as possible

[1] The…

Hello again! What you see is a screenshot of a new feature in the Splunk for Facebook app. It is still a work in progress (many components need to be implemented – backend and frontend).

This a quick overview of the new feature added into the Splunk for Facebook app (“Activities updates in your social network”). It was mentioned briefly in the previous article “Splunk for Facebook … cont’d“ about getting better insight of the activities among your connections in your social network with Splunk. There are many parts that are pieced together to get this feature to work:

[1] Getting the data

This app utilizes the Facebook Graph API to retrieve the updates among your connections. In particular…

To piggyback from the previous article, the purpose of this app is to help users make sense of the data retrieved from the Facebook Graph API. Despite the fact that we at Splunk love to sift through and look at huge amount of data, we still like to explore if we can cleanse them, in other words, massage, filter, extract important details, transform them in order to make them more meaningful and sensible.

Some interesting use cases that this app addresses:

[1] Correlating your connections

This app will ideally help the users, at a quick glance, understand how they are connected to other users within the Facebook ecosystem. We are talking about the interesting “n-th degree of separation” problem…