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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
In my quest to increase the frequency of posting on all interesting things Splunkish, I’m going to be using Seesmic from now on. I’m thinking of doing at least a weekly Splunk update, covering new features, what’s in the release notes, things happening in preview releases and just generally magical I find along [...]
Recently, I’ve been thinking long and hard about blogging. People get on my case because “the ninja hasn’t blogged lately”. They’re right. I do understand that when you have go so far as to actually establish some sort of audience–in my case–Splunk related content consumers, you owe it to them to keep [...]
I think Splunk 3.0 is so cool, i made a 47 second movie out of it. Check it. Its done in iMovie 8 — Just came out today. I did it in 16×9 resolution and have included a small(er) copy for your iPhone. Yes, Splunk Support staff, I admit it, I [...]
One of the coolest (and there are a lot of cool things about Splunk) things you can do with Splunk is mapping a transaction. Many times, what some consider a “transaction” may be the linkage between events often by multiple common factors. At Interop 2007 in Las Vegas this year, the network [...]
Greetings friends.. the Curse of the Golden Logfile has been lifted and the Splunk Ninja is back at last!…In this episode the SplunkNinja will demonstrate the simplicity setting up Splunk-2-Splunk. Follow along and the SplunkNinja will guide you through a complete setup.. This 5 minute video is a good primer for anyone who needs Splunk [...]
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 [...]
Hello Grasshoppa..
Today starts a series of web videos by the Splunk Ninja. He will be providing downloads (and possibly a video podcast) of tips, tricks, how to’s and anything else you might like him to explain. Its the Splunk Ninja that can demonstrate how to quickly slay different log formats. He’ll show you how to [...]
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