There are a select number of U.S. cities dominated by certain industries that ultimately help to define those cities. Detroit for cars, Nashville for country music, Pittsburgh for the Steelers and Primanti Brothers – and Washington, DC for government.

Considering there isn’t a single organization or entity in the world with more data than the U.S. government, Washington, DC has been home to annual SplunkLive! events for the past five years. Yesterday, we hosted our largest yet with nearly 750 attendees.

Our Chairman and CEO Godfrey Sullivan kicked off the event with an overview of Splunk’s capabilities in private and public sectors, touching on key points like the importance of machine data for verifying accuracy and how continuous monitoring is…

The logging library for Android is now added with an option to reroute the crash logs into Splunk Enterprise. Yes, crash logs from Android mobile devices into Splunk Enterprise.

This is a logging library developed for mobile app developers to allow better visibility of their apps; particularly to address the instrumentation of crash logs. Bottom-line, no more guessing what kind of errors that end users experience with your mobile apps on their phones. Ensure the highest quality of your apps by harnessing realtime analytics Splunk Storm provides.

On your mark! Get set! Hack! Splunk is hosting a hackathon at Seed Philly on Wednesday, March 6 from 4-9pm, after SplunkLive Philadelphia.  This hackathon gives developers a chance to build applications that make it easier and more effective to gain insights from machine data with Splunk.

Have you heard of Splunk, but don’t know how to get started using the product to build cool data mashups? Come and join! Splunk will provide food, beer and Splunk experts to help you get started. All skill levels are welcome. Join us whether you are a black belt Splunk ninjas or new to Splunk and wanting to apply your coding skills to build data apps.

Thanks much to Seed Philly…

With the release of Splunk 5.0, the Simple XML language we use to define the dashboards and forms for an app was greatly extended. So, we were given a challenge – could a reasonably complex app, such as the Splunk App for Microsoft Exchange – be represented using only Simple XML?

I am pleased to announce that the Splunk App for *Nix version 4.6 is now available on Splunkbase!  Similarly, the Splunk Technology Add-on for *Nix version 1.1 is now available on Splunkbase as well.

To all .conf attendees, thank you for attending my presentation today. It was really heart-warming to see the strong support from you. The room reached full-occupancy within minutes!

To those that missed this session, there will be an encore session to talk about the internals of the concept viz app. We’ll look at the design and then dive straight into the codes:

Visualizing your Big Data
Castellana 1
Thursday, Sept 13, 2012
11:45am -12:15 pm

See you tomorrow and we’ll see how far your BIG data take you in your journey!
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Is that possible at all? At Splunk, we are constantly experimenting ways to make Splunk more usable. This new approach allows users to “talk” to Splunk (with a microphone) and transforms natural language into Splunk search command.

Notice the small little microphone icon in the textfield? That small little icon unlocks a huge potential to make splunk more user friendly.

Interested to learn more about this concept app?
Come join us at the Chalk-talk session on
Monday, September 10, 2012
5pm – 7pm
Gracia Commons, Level 3 Cosmopolitan Hotel

Are you virtualizing your environment? Is your organization soaking in all the buzz around Cloud? Are you virtualizing your infrastructure or adopting cloud solutions? Want to gain efficiencies and learn how Splunk can help? Come join us in our various Cloud and Virtualization sessions at .conf.

We have a solution for VMware  (but of course!). Come join us to learn about how to best configure the App, a demo and various use cases discussed over 3 sessions. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to speak directly to the experts who created this App. Learn why all our customers are excited about the solution that provides them unprecedented levels of granularity on their virtualization data with the ability to relate…

Here’s a thought. “Visualizing the content in the /etc/apps directory of your Splunk instance”. Is that possible with Splunk? There’s an app for that.

Here’s a sneak preview of the app …

Come join us and learn more in the Developing on Splunk sessions at .conf!