Blogs: Tat-Wee

Use Cases, Use Cases and more Use Cases. During the APAC Partner Kick Off, we had recently crowned a few apps and named them as the “Splunk Apps of the Year”. Before that, we had a Call for Submissions back in December 2011, and had invited all our APAC partners to participate in this competition. The response was overwhelming, and we had received 15 best-of-the-breed apps that showcase just how Splunk can be used across the industries.

Bounded by a set of Judging Criteria, we began the arduous task of scoring the apps. There weren’t any firm conclusions as each and every one of the apps were stellar and we had to go thru 23 rounds of debates and discussions…

Time flashes past and as I get older, it suddenly dawns upon me that seriously; time and tide waits for no man. Just a week ago, the entire APAC partners met in Kota Kinabalu, which was really a superb place to hold our kickoff as well as to bring the families along. The idea was to maroon all the partners in an island, give them just a few drops of beer and force them to listen to our Big Data Strategy as well as our differentiators.

Guess what? It worked! I didn’t see any partners strolling along the beach (except myself but that is another story..) and all of them were extremely attentive and stayed throughout the…

Below is a repost from the BigData.SG user group based in Singapore. If you are in town, feel free to roll over to the Singapore Marriott Hotel on the February 28th 2012 from 6:30 pm till 9 pm for a good session and get a deeper understanding on how some of the leading institutions are harnessing and dealing with Big Data. Click here to register your interest.

We have a truly AWESOME roster of speakers and topics for this month’s BigDataSG meetup. Splunk has been kind enough to sponsor food and drinks. It’s going to be a really, really outstanding event–DON’T MISS IT!

Speakers and Topics:

Paul Stanford, Director of Product Management at Splunk: Turning Machine Data Into

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As we draw closer to our inaugural APAC Partner Kick Off (PKO) that will be held high up in the heavenly mountains of Mount Kinabalu in East Malaysia from the 29th Feb till 1st March 2012, we can sense the excitement that has been building strongly throughout the APAC partner community. We have received a total of 15 nominations from our APAC partners who are competing in the “Splunk Apps of the Year” awards, and I just heard that my APAC colleagues are groaning away as they were tasked to polish the awards that will be given out during the event.

Mind you, that is the easy part.

The difficult part for me (I always get the difficult part) would…

The funny thing about Splunk is how it just doesn’t stop surprising you. Even after years of using it, you still get surprises. Okay, I must confess I haven’t used Spunk for years, but you get the idea.

Last week, I was in the land of Kimchis in a -5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) room, wearing no gloves and a thin veil as my underwear. It was brutal as usual, especially when you are not in your own country. I was thumbing thru the Splunk User’s manual trying to look for some answers. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a few paragraphs that were new to me. In fact, there were so new that…

My life seems to be revolving around disasters. From the earthquakes in Tokyo, to the hurricanes in Taipei, to the floods in Thailand and the once in a-hundred-year fog in Beijing. Been there, done that and have survived. Strangely enough, most of my colleagues seem to be reluctant to travel with me nowadays, for fear of getting caught in a calamity. Superstitious, they must be.

It has been tough going for the past few weeks in Thailand with massive flooding occuring in the northen and central regions of the country. The situation has now spread to the capital, Bangkok. During this ongoing crisis, timely information about the water levels of rivers and canals are critical and essential to the…

Hong Kong, a kaleidoscope of life; a sophisticated fusion of East and West; a city of diversity where new and old meet at every turn. A city with a distinctive past and dreams of the future; an age-old synthesis of cultures and traditions that opens a window into what will be, while embracing what has passed. This beautiful country is exactly where we opened our new Splunk office.

We have just finished a fruitful week in the new office, and witnessed the official opening that was also kindly graced by our wonderful HR ladies from HQ. A traditional Chinese opening ceremony was conducted at the auspicious hour of 12 pm noon that saw some animal sacrifice which I would…

Last week was almost unreal to me. As I sat in the lobby typing this and waiting for the next meeting, I noticed I had a small cut in my little toe, a cough that wouldn’t go away since 2 weeks ago and a pimple right in the middle of my nose. Pimple – déjà vu. Probably I was too stress, or perhaps this is due to the lack of sleep or most likely the reason is because I am still young. They say only young people have pimples.

I was in Tokyo for the entire of last week, and on the 11th March when the massive quake struck, I was commuting on the train to our partner’s office. That…

We were working on a project to pull out internal operational metrics from Bluecoat and Brocade devices via a Python Scripted Input. There are a few ways to achieve this, either via Telnet (less secure) or via SSH. In any case, we were testing this out using the Telnetlib on Python, and managed to get everything working nicely. We will eventually extend the script to use the SSH library.

One of the reasons why we have to go via the Telnet/SSH route is because certain metrics are not readily available via Syslog or SNMP. It is incredible that Splunk can pull out such transient information to provide operational intelligence to the enterprise.

If you think about it, you can…

We had a Splunk Architect Class that was held in Singapore recently. Our senior instructor Drew Oetzel was in town for this, and the response was so incredible that we had to hold off new students from signing up for fear of compromising on the quality of the training.

This was also the first time I had witnessed the new Splunk course called “Searching and Reporting with Splunk”. This is a nine-hour follow-on course to the Using Splunk class. It focuses on Splunk’s search and reporting commands, along with scenario-based examples and hands-on challenges to enable users to create robust searches, reports and charts.

Some of the major topics include statistics and reporting, formatting, calculating results,…