Splunk 6.5 Under the Hood: Clustering Enhancements

Intro

By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the release of Splunk Enterprise 6.5. Those of you who were at .conf 2016 got to see many of the new features during the keynotes, in sessions, and at the various booths.

Splunk Enterprise 6.5 brings lots of great enhancements related to user experience such as table datasets, conditional table formatting, dashboard editing, and enhanced search/SPL assistance. For those of you who have not had a chance to see some of the new features yet, I encourage you to check out this short video: ...


Splunk Multisite Clustering

Splunk 6.1 – Introducing Multisite Clustering

 

With the release of Splunk Enterprise 6.1 have come many new features and enhancements. The initial reaction may be to question if upgrading to the new version is truly worth the effort. In this post I will describe one of the great new features in Splunk 6.1 that may turn your answer to that question into an unequivocal “yes”.

Introducing multisite clustering

First, allow me to propose a conundrum that many Splunk administrators within multi-site organizations may...


A Little Bird told me...

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You can imagine the scene in the cartoon above playing out in the office of a marketing professional in almost any corporate environment these days. In this case, the little bird is the data mining wizard that was brought in, and the big mountain ram is the marketing executive finding out about all the beautiful nuggets of information that had been discovered, all while he's dreaming up the potentially useful (clever and/or evil muuhahahaha...


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