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Stay Connected: Your Guide to January Tech Talks, Office Hours, and Webinars!

NickG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

What are Community Office Hours?

Community Office Hours is an interactive 60-minute Zoom series where participants can ask questions and engage with technical Splunk experts on various topics. Whether you're just starting your journey with Splunk or looking for best practices to take your deployment to the next level, Community Office Hours provides a safe and open environment for you to get help.

If you have an issue you can’t seem to resolve, have a question you’re eager to get answered by Splunk experts, are exploring new use cases, or just want to sit and listen in, Community Office Hours is for you!

What are Tech Talks?

Tech Talks are designed to accelerate adoption and ensure your success. In these engaging 60-minute sessions, we dive deep into best practices, share valuable insights, and explore additional use cases to expand your knowledge and proficiency with our products.

Whether you're looking to optimize your workflows, discover new functionalities, or troubleshoot challenges, Tech Talks is your go-to resource.

 

SECURITY

Office Hours | Security: Splunk Threat Research Team - Security Content AMA

January 21, 2026 at 11am PT

What can I ask in this AMA?

  • What are the latest security content updates from the Splunk Threat Research Team?
  • What are the best practices for implementing the Splunk Technology Add-on for Ollama?
  • What tips and tricks can help leverage Splunk Attack Range, Contentctl, and other resources developed by the Splunk Threat Research Team?
  • What new analytic stories and detections can surface AI-enabled workflows to help you detect and respond to emerging threats across critical enterprise platforms?
  • How do the detections work across the integration between Cisco Talos and Splunk?
  • Any specific questions you have when you leverage the out-of-box-detections? 
  • Any other questions about the team’s content and resources!

 

OBSERVABILITY

Office Hours | Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Ask Me Anything

January 20, 2026 at 1pm PT

What can I ask in this AMA?

  • How can I best use Call Graphs?
  • How do I use Service Grouping?
  • Where can I find APM utilization dashboards?
  • Anything else you'd like to learn!

 

PLATFORM

Office Hours | Platform AI: Ask Me Anything

January 22, 2026 at 11am PT

What can I ask in this AMA?

  • What new AI tools and capabilities are available today?
  • How can I get started with MCP server?
  • What are some common use cases to get started with the AI Toolkit or DSDL app?
  • How can Splunk help me monitor and secure my generative AI applications?
  • Can I develop and package a custom machine learning model in Splunk?
  • Anything else you’d like to learn!

Tech Talk | Splunk MCP & Agentic AI: Machine Data Without Limits

January 29, 2026 at 11am PT

In this session, we’ll show how MCP empowers autonomous AI agents to retrieve, process, and share live data anywhere it’s needed — breaking barriers and accelerating insight across your organization.

  • You'll leave this talk with the following:
  • A clear understanding of Agentic AI and where Splunk MCP fits in the ecosystem.
  • An overview of Splunk’s MCP Server, including installation and configuration essentials.
  • Example use cases showing MCP in action with agentic AI systems.

 

APP DEV

Tech Talk | Application Management with Targeted Application Install for Victoria Experience

January 26, 2026 at 11am PT

Apps create endless opportunities to leverage the strengths of the Splunk Cloud platform. Until now, you could only install Splunk apps across every search head on a Splunk Cloud Platform Victoria Experience deployment. With TAI you now have fine-grained control over which search head groups will run which apps.

This improvement is one of the top 10 voted ideas on Splunk Ideas. It allows customers to better isolate use cases and workloads to specific groups of users of their Splunk Cloud Platform Victoria Experience deployments. It also reaches parity with app installation functionality between Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform Classic Experiences.

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