I spend a great deal of time using, learning and demonstrating Splunk, and recently I had some questions from users on “what can I do with fields?”, “how do i make them?”, “how do I tweak them?”. That inspired me to publish a new Splunk Ninja episode known as “Fields of Dreams”.
In this episode, Splunk [...]

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Update: If you’re interested in checking out the Recorded Webinar as a result of the news below, it is located here:
RightScale / Splunk Webinar
If you’re new to the cloud, and new to Splunk–or neither–spare an hour tomorrow, February 10th at 11am PST.  Splunk and RightScale will be putting on a pretty [...]

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And now for something completely different! In working with some interesting data generated by Boxee media center software, I found that we could use Splunk as a “Ratings Reporting Engine”.  Additionally, as Boxee is open source, I thought it might be handy to give their developers realtime access to my log data as its being [...]

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Welcome to another episode of Splunk Ninja.  I received and email from a customer yesterday indicating they wanted a better way to deal with “noise” in their logs.  For this customer, filtering out events prior to them being indexed was not the answer–they need to retain every event, but not necessarily deal with them.
It brought [...]

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Put down that O’Reilly book about RegEx, quit googling, and saddle up!  Ninja’s going Texas style today with a new video on Regular Expressions, or REGEX.   Since Splunk is the ultimate swiss army knife for IT, or rather the “belt” in “blackbelt”, I wanted to share with you how I learned about Regex and some [...]

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Today, http://splunk.tv is live at Amazon Start-Up at the Austin Music Hall.  Tune in, the SplunkNinja will be talking about what we’ve been doing with Amazon’s Web Services in a number of capacities.  This will be recorded, so if you can’t make it–tune in later.  3:10 PM CST.

Update:  The recorded video from yesterday’s presentation [...]

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A few weeks ago, Louis DiMeglio and I did a “quasi-podcast-ish” Q and A session discussing experiences at this year’s Interop shows (Las Vegas in May, and the upcoming New York show in September).   This session is over on Sciencelogic’s blog, check it out–we tried really hard to edit the audio well–who knows we may [...]

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This episode gives our faithful and inquisitive viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the Splunk Ninja’s ghetto-tech operation. Some viewers have been wondering, how I put all of these videos together, what equipment to use and what software or websites to get started with.  Covered in this no-holds-barred, blockbuster epic, multi-dollar budgeted, long form [...]

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In the last episode of the Splunk Ninja series, Cloud Power, I gave a quick overview of Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Computing services and what they can be used for.  In this episode I go in to a functional tour of where I’m at with EC2 today.  As many know, I use EC2 for quick, flexible, [...]

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I’m a big fan of cloud computing. Amazon has put together a very usable pile of computing services with their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The ability to quickly provision server computing resources in a pay-to-play virtual environment is right up my alley! This video gives background on EC2, and demonstrates how fast I [...]

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