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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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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Since we’ve recently switched over to Salesforce.com, which I’m pretty satisfied with.  I’ve been searching for tools that help me interact with Salesforce.com via the software on my Mac, such as “Microsoft Entourage 2008″ and my favorite application “Quicksilver”
Simon Fell, over at PocketSoap.com has created a bunch of tools for the Mac user that help [...]

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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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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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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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Greetings Grasshoppers.. The Splunk Ninja is back with a double-shot this week. Two videos in three days. In this episode the SplunkNinja will demonstrate the simplicity of making Splunk work. He’ll download, install, configure and have Splunk eating logs in less that three minutes. This 8 minute video is [...]

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