Splunk SDK for Java now has maven support

Since the launch of the Splunk App for VMware, we’ve received some great feedback on how to use the data collected by the App. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Splunk App for VMware v2.0 and with your help we’ve introduced some fantastic reports and visualizations. Here are some highlights:

Health reports: These reports provide a real-time view of the health of your VMware environments. You can quickly identify which VMs and hosts have system resources that are in a critical state, datastores that are under- or over-utilized, alarms that have been triggered from your environments and more. You can then logically navigate from these summary pages to detailed pages. And to do…

Customer Examples – Using both Splunk and Hadoop

The Splunk and Hadoop communities can benefit from each other’s strengths. Below are several examples of customers that use both environments.

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Using the new Splunk Sentiment Analysis app I was able to correlate how positive tweets were, depending on how many people follow a twitter account. It’s a slight stretch, but essentially, are you happier with more friends?

index=twitter | sentiment twitter body | chart avg(sentiment) by actor.followersCount


It seems that people with smaller circles of friends are more positive. More friends equals more negativity, up until about 75 friends. Seems like a fairly good life lesson, but take it a grain of salt — spam twitter accounts may skew things.

EXCERPT FROM “EXPLORING SPLUNK: SEARCH PROCESSING LANGUAGE (SPL) PRIMER AND COOKBOOK”. Kindle/iPad/PDF available for free, and hardcopy available for purchase at Amazon.

Problem

You need to find transactions with specific field values.

Solution

A general search for all transactions might look like this:

          sourcetype=email_logs | transaction userid

Suppose, however, that we want to identify just those transactions where there is an event that has the field/value pairs to=root and from=msmith. You could use this search:

   sourcetype=email_logs
   | transaction userid
   | search to=root from=msmith

The problem here is that you are retrieving all events from this sourcetype (potentially billions), building up all the transactions, and then throwing 99% of the data right in to the bit…

I visited a Health Care customer recently to discuss their most important use cases for Splunk. They’ve taken a holistic approach to getting all of their application data into Splunk and it’s really paying off. A key use case for their many health care facilities helps them stay compliant to meet their meaningful use requirements.

Meaningful use of health information technology is an umbrella term for rules and regulations that hospitals and physicians must meet to qualify for federal incentive funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). One of the overarching goals is to use Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care. Bottom line, it’s important to…

Most analytics and data projects have started thinking of investing in big data initiatives.  With so much buzz about big data, organizations have started investing or are thinking of investing in Hadoop While it is great to stay on top of trends, it often ends up being another investment where the full benefit and potential is simply not realized. The learning curve is too steep and the time to implement too high. Current analytics resources lack the strong programming skills required to conduct even simple analysis tasks and activities using Hadoop. In this post, I would like to focus on providing a better understanding of what types of analysis are better suited for Hadoop vs. non-Hadoop technologies in order to simplify…

EXCERPT FROM “EXPLORING SPLUNK: SEARCH PROCESSING LANGUAGE (SPL) PRIMER AND COOKBOOK”. Kindle/iPad/PDF available for free, and hardcopy available for purchase at Amazon.

          2012-07-22 11:45:23 code=239
          2012-07-22 11:45:25 code=773
          2012-07-22 11:45:26 code=-1
          2012-07-22 11:45:27 code=-1
          2012-07-22 11:45:28 code=-1
          2012-07-22 11:45:29 code=292
          2012-07-22 11:45:30 code=292
          2012-07-22 11:45:32 code=-1
          2012-07-22 11:45:33 code=444
          2012-07-22 11:45:35 code=-1
          2012-07-22 11:45:36 code=-1

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When I was in Las Vegas last month for our Users’ Conference, I randomly threw twenty dollars into a pirate-themed penny slot machine. It was late at night, I might have had an adult beverage or two, and I was feeling lucky. Actually, I was resigned to losing my $20 and going to bed. To my surprise, after just a few minutes of randomly hitting buttons and playing all 30 lines like a Vegas VIP, I hit some kind of jackpot and walked away with $40. Vegas, I own you!

No doubt about it—everyone loves to feel like a winner! So, on Tuesday night during the Search Party, we distinguished the winners of this year’s Splunk Revolution Awards. The Revolution…

EXCERPT FROM “EXPLORING SPLUNK: SEARCH PROCESSING LANGUAGE (SPL) PRIMER AND COOKBOOK”. Kindle/iPad/PDF available for free, and hardcopy available for purchase at Amazon.

          ... | transaction username

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