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…

Attending .conf for the first time this year, I was reminded of the lyrics from Elvis’s song Viva Las Vegas

” How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
Cause even if there were forty more
I wouldn’t sleep a minute away”

I didn’t want .conf12 to end. Hearing our customers talk about their usage of Splunk, meeting some of you face-to-face and learning all that’s going on in Splunk put me in a high trance – one that I’ve not quite experienced in Vegas before.

Speaking specifically about virtualization – we had multiple sessions – for VMware, for Citrix solutions such as XenDesktop, XenApp,

Are you going to be at .conf? If not, you should be. Don’t miss the opportunity to listen to Justin Hardeman from Availity, a leading health information network, where he discusses how his organization uses Splunk for proactive monitoring and business reporting. In this session, he illustrates how Splunk has helped his organization gain visibility, analytics and intelligence on their applications, infrastructure and business with proactive monitoring and rich analytics. Join Justin at his session “Think Beyond Application Monitoring”, speak to him (and the Splunk team if you want!) and learn about how he has been able to drive enterprise adoption of Splunk.

Where: The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Brera 2&3

Date: 09.12.2012

Time 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

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…

Given that we’ve made significant changes since our 1.0 and 2.0 beta releases of the Splunk solution for WebSphere Application Servers, we hosted a webinar earlier this week to demo our latest release. Over 65 of you joined the call and made it an enjoyable experience for us, so thank you! I personally loved all the questions we got – keep them coming! For the benefit of those who couldn’t make it, here’s a quick summary.

The Splunk solution for WebSphere Application Server automates the collection of event logs, configuration and performance metrics from across your WAS deployment in a scalable manner. Various dashboard views can be used out-of-the-box or can be customized to your needs. Our live…

Are you having trouble finding an easy way to collect logs, configuration and performance metrics from your WebSphere Application Server (WAS) deployment? Do you fear instrumenting your code or application servers to collect deep-dive metrics in production environments?

Get an inside look at the upcoming release of the Splunk solution for WebSphere Application Server. Learn how to easily extend your Splunk deployment to WAS for real-time feeds, flexible search queries and out-of-the-box views, without any instrumentation.

Event Information: Exclusive Preview: Splunk for WebSphere Application Server
Date and Time:           Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:00 am
                                                Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00)

Join us for a live demo. Register today!

Recently, Gartner published a report on APM Innovators, to recognize vendors that are driving an evolution in Application Performance Management.  Splunk is included in this report, even though it is not your traditional Systems or Application Monitoring tool – primarily driven by our fantastic customers who have deployed Splunk extensively to monitor their complex application environments.

This recognition is an important milestone for APM overall and for Splunk. In the past, Gartner has categorized it into 5 sub-segments – End User Experience Monitoring, Runtime Application Discovery, Modeling and Display, User-defined transaction profiling, Application deep-dive component monitoring and Analytics. However, as customers need increasingly to understand end-user experience from end to end in complex application environments, their requirements…

SplunkLive Dallas was the perfect mix of up-and-coming Splunk users and veterans showing off some deep technical know-how.

A few highlights from the day:

Rachel Neal, Client Manager for Connectivity Services from DerbySoft kicked off the customer stories for the day. DerbySoft provides electronic distribution, reservation, financial, and marketing services for hotels and travel distributors. She supports 4 globally distributed data centers, with developers and customers all over the globe–needless to say it’s a challenging environment to manage. She was candid, funny and told a great story. (I happened to be at JCPenney to check out their holiday readiness war room the following day and they told me she was their favorite!) A few stories from Rachel:

• Developers used to pick and choose from the

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I’m very proud to announce that Splunk for WebSphere Application Servers (WAS) has been significantly enhanced, based on the feedback we’re received from you. As a successor to the 1.0 release, this 2.0 beta release includes enhancements that lets you easily deploy, scale, monitor and manage your Splunk deployment for WAS. While we’ve invested substantially in improvements to deployment and management, the enhancements are not limited to operational tasks – you will find improved reporting and dashboards providing views on some of the key statistics on both the current state  and historical trend, along with improved analytics of your WAS environment.

Getting into the details

In order to successfully deploy Splunk for WAS you will need to install 3…

Last week we held SplunkLive in New York City for the 4th time. I never tire of hearing about customer successes, visiting with our long-time and new customers, and watching the fantastic interactions between users. This year more than 200 folks joined us in Times Square.

DealerTrack is the nation’s first and largest credit application network for the automotive industry, connecting 17,000 dealers and over 1000 lenders. Senior Director of Technology Architecture, and one of the founding members, Chris DeMeo detailed DealerTrack’s complex environment, spanning multiple geos and data centers and with the diverse architecture that comes with multiple acquisitions over the course of several years. As is common with our customers, they brought Splunk in for a unified view…