Blogs: apps

Did you know that my data mames me healthier? Yeah, I exported my year-long history of daily caloric intake, weight measurements, and amount of water consumption from my LiveStrong.com account and splunked it all.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

What? What? What?

A social app on Splunk platform? There’s an app for it. Download “Splunk for Facebook” now at http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/splunk+for+facebook

Documentation and tutorial underway. Stay tuned …

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)

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Following the successful release of the first Splunk App for Microsoft Exchange in August 2011, we just released an updated version. The Splunk App for Microsoft Exchange v1.1 allows you to monitor server health, e-mail messages and users across your Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 infrastructure. Here are the top reasons you should install or upgrade.

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…