I’ve recently developed a Splunk app called “splunkbase“.  It looks at your Splunk installation and suggests apps on splunkbase.com relevant to your data.  It analyzes your indexed data, as well as data in your file system not yet indexed.  It also suggests apps based on what other Splunk users have installed at similar installations — sort of like how Amazon will suggest items to purchase based on what other users similar to you have purchase.

The app is simple to run — it’s just one dashboard, with several reports that suggest apps.

Security: At no time is any of your data uploaded or forwarded on. The signatures of all free splunkbase apps are included with this app so…

A few weeks ago we announced the: “Where Will Your Karma Take You Awards Contest.” The contest is your chance to ratchet up your participation in Splunk’s online community so you can earn a free pass to Splunk’s ultimate community and educational event: .conf2012.

Current standings for each of the categories:

Most up voted question:

1. Mahieu: Finding events that have never happened before
2. clyde772: Slow search when evaluating a numeric value.
3. aniketb: updating a lookup table by external means
4. andrew_garvin: Setup screen with credentials and multiple endpoints

Most points accumulated from answering questions (Whew! It’s close at the top!):

1. dwaddle (640)
2. ayn (630)
3. sideview (450)–Don’t miss his session: Easier View Deployment with Sideview Utils
4. mhibbin (260)
5. drainy (210)–Don’t miss his

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A few weeks ago we announced the: “Where Will Your Karma Take You Awards Contest.” The contest is your chance to ratchet up your participation in Splunk’s online community so you can participate in Splunk’s ultimate community and educational event: .conf2012.

Current standings for each of the categories:

Most up voted question:

1. clyde772: Slow search when evaluating a numeric value.
2. Mahieu: Finding events that have never happened before
3. aniketb: updating a lookup table by external means

Most points accumulated from answering questions:

1. dwaddle (380)
2. ayn (250)
3. sideview (220)
4. mhibbin (90)
5. lowell (40)

Most downloaded app from Splunkbase Apps:

1. sideview: Sideview Utils (822)
2. josh 1: Splunk License Usage (119)
3. southeringtonp: Splunk for OSSEC – Splunk v4 version (118)

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Many of you are dedicated members of the Splunk Answers and Splunkbase community—you spend a lot of time on the site asking questions and helping other users with Splunk.  Lately, we’ve received some repeated feedback from you – it’s becoming difficult to stay up to date with the most recent posts, interesting findings, or new apps. Of course you can still browse and click through the site and subscribe to tags and new posts, but as the community grows and more folks participate, it’s easier and easier to miss something interesting. That is why we decided to help you stay up to date with the most interesting posts and apps in our community:

Introducing the Splunk Community weekly newsletter!

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Our apps have got a new, distinctive look – check them out on Splunkbase!  Our goal was to made apps easy to browse and find, to make it clear what a given app’s purpose and value is, and to make it easier for you to contribute your feedback.  Take a look.

New clean listing page allows you to skim through it and find what you are looking for without missing important details, like number of downloads, recent updates and relevant tags.

App details are now looking more organized and clean.   Learn everything about an app and proceed to download with one click.

Love it? Hate it?

Please let me know –…

As the number of apps Splunkbase hosts continues to grow (260+ as of now), we’ve noticed that it has become common for people to search for apps that are compatible with a specific version of Splunk.  Sure, you could check the “Splunk compatibility” field on an app’s Details page and see whether a given app was compatible with your version of Splunk, but there was no easy way to look at all compatible apps.  As a result, we’ve decided to make our search smarter—we’ve improved it to support the Splunk version.

To try it out, type the Splunk version that you are looking for in the Search input box for apps (for example, 4.3) and hit Enter or click

I am happy to announce a new feature on Splunkbase – direct installs from an app’s Splunkbase page into Splunk.  No more downloads and messing with files.  Just click “Install into Splunk” button and your Splunk instance will automatically pick up the App from Splunkbase and install it.

It’s pretty easy.  To enable this feature, go to Splunkbase, open your user’s profile, click on “Edit users settings” – “Edit profile“.  You will be able to see new input field there, “Splunk Instance“. Note that the Splunk instance  that you specify in this field  can reside in a closed network, and it does not need to have Internet access, but your local computer must be able to access it.  Also,…

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…

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.