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Are you getting the insights you expect from your website search?

Posted by Aiiaz Khan on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 08:53 Web Experience Management Web Experience Management, search, Insights, WEM, Strategy, Search Engine

When considering search, the first thought is generally SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing). Both involve driving and maximizing the visitors to a site or a given page.  However, once they get there, are they getting what they want? Maybe. Can we do more? Probably. How? One way is to factor in the insights from your website search when selecting the content to show them.

We live in a content-centric age where a vast quantity of content is available to everyone. The trick is not only to get people to your site to see your content and show them relevant...

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Think small, search faster

Posted by Ridwan Ahmed on Monday, August 19, 2013 - 15:03 Operational Intelligence search, speed, Splunk, tsidx

Compared to a few years ago, it is almost unbelievable that we are able to sift the amount of data we can, and the speed with which we can do it. But like the fast cars we drive today that are much faster than similar cars of yesteryear, we get used to the speed we have, and soon wonder: “can it go faster?”

Yes, but with some conditions.

Like Turbocharging, Supercharging, and enlarging the displacement in cars-- all valid ways to make a fast car go faster, --in Splunk there is Report Acceleration, Summary Indexing, and searching tsidx files.  Each has its own benefits and...

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Taking a closer look

Posted by Ridwan Ahmed on Friday, May 3, 2013 - 15:00 Operational Intelligence search, Splunk

Ever have a well-formed search on Splunk that is running too slowly?  Of course, they can always go faster, but there are times when it really just seems like something is holding back your search speed. That leaves you wondering where in the chain of information transfer is the problem, really? And just when you're about to throw your arms up in despair: don't worry, job inspector is here!

The job inspector is one of those tools that Splunk provides which are often overlooked because of the plethora of other better-known tools. A quick glance at so many details in one...
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Getting a Pulse on Your System: How to Build a System Health Indicator in Splunk

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Friday, February 1, 2013 - 15:28 Operational Intelligence, Development Dashboards, query, search, singlevalue, Splunk

Welcome Splunkers!  I hope everyone is having a great New Year.  We certainly are, here at Function1.  We just publicly released a beta version of our Splunk for Oracle WebLogic Server app to Splunkbase  as mentioned in a recent post.  As part of the Splunk products team at Function1, I'm always looking at new ideas and approaches in Splunk app development.  As Splunk apps become more robust, they will...

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