Many companies produce RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for their employees, partners, and customers. Moreover, these same companies consume RSS feeds from their suppliers whether it be personal news information or more timely business data. RSS is a great way to digest this information, but after a certain period, it may not be possible to [...]

I was talking to some Splunk Users and mentioned scripted alerts as a very powerful way to invoke any program to get an alert. My thoughts then came to audible alerts. Since a scripted alert can call anything, it is possible that the script can call a program that can remotely send an alert that [...]

One of our partners in Asia came up with the interesting catch phrase “Everybody Splunk”, which we say internally. Today’s topic is about everybody using Splunk’s SDKs. As I’ve spoken to Splunk users, I’ve noticed that many of them are not aware of their existence. This topic has been discussed elsewhere in the development guide, [...]