Splunk Lantern is a customer success center that provides advice from Splunk experts on valuable data insights, key use cases, and tips on managing Splunk more efficiently.
We also host Getting Started Guides for a range of Splunk products, a library of Product Tips, and Data Descriptor articles that help you see everything that’s possible with data sources and data types in Splunk.
This month we’re spotlighting two new sets of articles designed especially for SOAR users and manufacturing customers. For everyone else, we’ve also published lots of new use cases, product tips, and data articles that cover a range of concerns across Security and Observability. Jump to the bottom of this blog to find those, or read on to find out more about our new SOAR and Manufacturing updates.
The SOAR Adoption Maturity Model
We’ve just published a great new resource for Splunk SOAR users who are looking to get the most value possible out of the platform.
The SOAR Adoption Maturity Model offers a comprehensive framework for implementing a complete security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solution in your IT environment.
Different organizations have different needs from their SOAR implementation. If you’re an organization that has an ad hoc, distributed, or managed SOC that works in a reactive and manual way, you’ll have different needs from an organization that has a centralized SOC running a lot of proactive processes. The SOAR Adoption Maturity Model helps you assess your maturity level and links you to recommended best practices, use cases, playbooks, and applications that fit your specific needs. It also provides you with guidance on how you can strategically progress through different stages to effectively advance your security capabilities.
If you’re a SOAR user, check it out today, and let us know what you think!
Manufacturing addition to the Platform Use Case Explorer
Lantern’s Use Case Explorers for Security, Observability and the Splunk Platform are in constant development, with new use cases being added regularly. We’re happy to announce that we've added a suite of new use cases for Manufacturing customers to the Platform Use Case Explorer. Here’s a quick look at some of the new use cases:
- Identifying and quantifying your organization's carbon emissions helps you create emission monitoring dashboards that can be customized to suit your organization's needs.
- Identifying and visualizing supply chain issues shows you how to use the Splunk platform to visualize your supply chain and warehouse inventory, as well as how to schedule searches to automatically get updates on a regular basis.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting device temperature helps you ensure operational efficiency and prevent potential issues such as system overheating or outages.
- Monitoring equipment issues in real-time with predictive maintenance introduces you to modern equipment monitoring techniques that help you move from a traditional, reactive maintenance stance to a more proactive and strategic one.
What Else?
As well as everything above, over the past month we’ve published a wealth of use cases, product tips, data descriptors, and more. Here’s the full list:
Security
- Auditing with the Splunk App for PCI Compliance
- Passing data between SOAR playbooks
- Normalizing Enterprise Security data with technology add-ons
- Sending events from the Splunk platform to SOAR
- Generating investigation lists for a virus infection
Observability
- Correlating log data to metric charts in Observability Cloud dashboards
- Deciding on automatic versus manual instrumentation
- Customizing span metadata in Splunk APM
- Using business workflows in Splunk APM
- Optimizing application, service, and memory usage with AlwaysOn Profiling for Splunk APM
- Monitoring the availability of online storefronts
Platform
- Splunk 9.0.5 FAQ
- Customizing the Splunk OpenTelemetry distribution to accommodate unsupported use cases
- Configuring Alert Actions with the Google Chrome Add On for Splunk
- Getting started with the Google Chrome App for Splunk
Finally, the Lantern team will be at this year’s .Conf. Please come and say hi! The Lantern kiosk will be located in the Success Zone. We’d love to meet more Lantern users, get your feedback, and learn more about how we can make the site better for you.
We hope you’ve found this update helpful. Thanks for reading!
Kaye Chapman, Senior Lantern Content Specialist for Splunk Lantern
