Every Click You Make, Splunk is Watching You…

Posted by Neena Bhutiani on March 12, 2015 Function1, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Operational Intelligence, Data Inputs

 

When I am at client sites I often get asked how they can get a better understanding of what is going on in their Splunk environment. A recent client wanted to understand what dashboards were being used the most in their environment and who were the top users. What a great thought! I knew that Splunk had to have a way to track this. It was just a matter of locating the data and then determining the best way to pull it. After going back and forth between metadata and the internal index, I came across this in Splunk’s internal index.

 

index=_internal sourcetype=...

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Developing with Acquia's Dev Desktop

Posted by Casey Fox on March 10, 2015 Development, Drupal Dev Desktop, Acquia

Developing locally means utilizing some sort of virtual server or machine. Now while I know my way easily around Drupal, PHP, HTML & CSS, I’m not a server admin (nor do I have any plans to become a server admin). I wanted to find a product that I wouldn’t need to allocate memory, that wouldn’t slow down my machine if it were on, and that I could easily pass files to and from my desktop. Working on a mac I used VMware and vbox for a while, but once I discovered Acquia’s Dev Desktop I immediately removed the others.

So...

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Creating my first dashboard and adding interactivity: The magic of text boxes in Splunk 6.1* in Simple XML

Posted by Ashley Mitchell on March 05, 2015 Operational Intelligence Splunk 6, Forms, Text box

Recently, I had the opportunity to work on the Web Analytics portion of an internal app development project. As a newb, I was eager to jump in, get started, enjoy the adventures and misadventures of Splunking, and put to use my newly developed Splunk skills obtained from weeks of training. I mean how could I fail? I had the right people, processes, and technologies supporting me to jump in and start the Splunk magic.

Moving forward, I jumped into action by reading tons of documentation, asking the typical newb questions and making the typical newb mistakes until somehow the first...

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Content Strategy is the New Black

Posted by Caroline Givnish on March 04, 2015 Best Practices user experience, content strategy, content marketing

We’ve all heard that Content is King (sounds a little misogynistic if you ask me), so the practice (art, really) of planning, developing and managing your royal highness is the knight in shining armor.

Can You Use it in a Sentence?

So, what exactly is Content Strategy, anyway? If you Google “Content Strategy” you’re sure to find a plethora of definitions and will probably fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, so we’ll do the hard work for you. In an interview with...

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Why Solr?

Posted by Hani Atalla on March 03, 2015 Drupal solr, search api, Faceted Search
When it comes to setting-up search for a Drupal site, out-of-the-box Drupal comes with a primitive built-in search engine. The out-of-the-box search engine can be sufficient if we are running a Content Management System (CMS) for a small blogging site. There are some basic customization and ranking settings that can be tailored; e.g. add more weight to blogs with more comments or recently submitted blogs or content. And it is neat because Drupal search respects node access permissions.
 
But not all Drupal installs are for blogging purposes. Some are used for...
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