SplunkTalk – #20 – Live from Interop NYC 2010

The 20th episode of SplunkTalk is live from the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Interop NYC 2010. Super Splunker Karandeep “Deep” Bains shares his experiences being a part of the Interop NOC staff, vast knowledge of Splunk and even schools Wilde on the true origin of the “fishbucket”. Questions, answers, noise and mayhem in the Interop NOC!

Episodes are recorded live every Friday at 11AM Central Time – Email us at splunktalk@splunk.com to ask questions and have them answered on air!

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SplunkTalk – #18 – The big event

What a blast! The Splunk Ninja and Maverick were “live” at Splunk HQ with Jeff remote in Chicago. Today’s chat is all about eventtypes and their use for classifying events and making search more useful for certain users. Also, we cover the many ways to calculate duration between ranges of events. John Mark Walker, Splunk’s Director of Community covers some upcoming meetups. “This is by far one of the funniest episodes we’ve done” says Michael Wilde, Splunk Ninja, and producer/editor of this podcast. Enjoy this one.

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SplunkTalk – #17 – I’ve got my Splunk pipe

Today on SplunkTalk its all about search and all about pipes! We deviate from our normal Q&A format to have a spirited discussion around the search language, the “pipe” character, how to string search commands together and make awesome unicorn-laden double rainbows happen. Jeff, Michael and Maverick are at it again. Enjoy.

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VIDEO: Glimpse into SplunkTalk Podcast Analytics – Insecure Login & Dashboard Tricks

In this video, first details are shown on how some of the dashboards for the SplunkTalk Podcast analytics are done. Insecure login, roles, users, security and a few tips on tweaking the dashboard are discussed.

Fullscreen the video. It will look much better as Splunk has a large web UI.

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SplunkTalk – #16 – The long hard road

The 16th episode of SplunkTalk is all about custom log files and data sources. How to properly index them, considerations around reporting and field extraction and even screen-scraped output from mainframes is all the rage for Michael, Jeff & Maverick. Jeff’s got a Splunk User Group coming up this week in Columbus, Ohio, Maverick’s battery went dead…and Wilde.. we’ll he’s just Wilde.

Episodes are recorded live every Friday at 11AM Central Time – Email us at splunktalk@splunk.com to ask questions and have them answered on air!

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SplunkTalk – #15 – The calm before the storm

This week, Jeff Blake, Field Reporter and Weatherman is on location inside the eye of something called “Hurricane Sean”. Topics for this episode are: Putting a Pause/Play button on a real-time dashboard and monitoring Windows WMI from Linux. We chat a bit about Splunk Answers and a new Splunk app on SplunkBase developed by Nick Mealy and David Carasso called “Splunk Discover” — analyzes your Splunk install and examines the data for fields and reports. Check it out!

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SplunkTalk – #14 – Dashboard Madness

On this weeks episode of our weekly Splunk Q&A we discuss issues around dashboards. Some are slow, some are ugly, we’ll talk about how to make them better, faster, stronger!. “Real Jeff” is back this week. He’s got some advice for users having difficulty with the moving parts of a Splunk app and chats about a few gotcha’s with packaging apps for SplunkBase. Maverick stars on the HackIsWack.com website, SplunkNinja has published analytics openly for this podcast and lots more!

Episodes are recorded live every Friday at 11AM Central Time – Email us at splunktalk@splunk.com to ask questions and have them answered on air!

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SplunkTalk – #10 – The Perfect Decimal – Live from Splunk User.Conf 2010

This week, we’re live at Splunk User Conference 2010. An excellent event that featured sessions, keynotes, education, and general Splunkery. Interviews with Ledio Ago & Lamar Holtzclaw of Splunk, Matt Uebel of Netsmart, and David Hazekamp, primary developer for Splunk ESS with Glasshouse Technologies. Recorded live, with noise, and Jeff’s irreplaceable laugh. SplunkTalk 10 at User.Conf 10. What a perfect decimal.

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SplunkTalk – #5 – Freedom from Noise

This week its all about black & whitelists, filtering and forwarding to third party systems. Your questions answered with humor, mindless banter and lots of fun!

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SplunkTalk Podcast #4 – Things that make you go… WTF?!?

In this week’s episode, we are focusing on issues that cause you to pull your hair out. Misconfigured hostnames in syslog events, indexing archived logfiles, and no GUI on your lightweight forwarder?!? News & Views, talk and lots of silliness… all about Splunk.

Visit Splunk.TV to subscribe or: (in the not too distant future) listen live every friday at 11AM Central Time. To be a part of the show and submit a question email splunktalk@splunk.com. Splunk Talk is hosted by Michael Wilde (Splunk Ninja), Jeffery Blake and Eric “Maverick” Garner.

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