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

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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

Tech Talk | Splunk Enterprise Security 8.x: The Essential Upgrade for Threat Detection, Investigatio...	November 6, 2025 at 11am PT	Join Splunk experts for an engaging and interactive Tech Talk, showcasing what you need to know before you upgrade and how: SOC teams should expect a new workflow to triage alerts and run investigations. SOC analysts will enjoy a native integration throughout the triage and investigation workflow with Splunk SOAR. The terminology across the UX has been aligned to the Open Cybersecurity Schema Format. Splunk Enterprise Security 8.x will support backward compatibility for most data in Enterprise Security including data in existing indexes. Security engineers and Splunk administrators will need to take action to leverage the latest innovations and features powered by ES 8 and Splunk SOAR.
Office Hours | Splunk Enterprise Security - the AI Powered SecOps Platform	November 18, 2025 at 11am PT	What can I ask in this AMA? What is different in the latest Splunk Enterprise Security, the AI powered SecOps Platform? Why upgrade to Enterprise Security 8 and why now? What are upgrade considerations and prep work? What do I need to know as a SOC Analyst, Detection Engineer, or SOAR engineer before and after my upgrade to Enterprise Security 8? What is the difference between Enterprise Security Essentials and Enterprise Security Premier? Anything else you'd like to learn!

OBSERVABILITY

Tech Talk | Splunk Observability for AI	November 5, 2025 at 11am PT	In this session, you will learn how: Splunk's agentic, AI-powered observability ties business context to telemetry, turning insights into improved reliability and reduced toil. To monitor the quality, accuracy, security, and cost of LLM and agentic applications to ensure they are operating as intended. To pinpoint noisy neighbors and troubleshoot issues of resource contention and unmet workload demands to respond to performance threats, degradations, and inefficiencies in real-time.
Office Hours | Observability: Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)	November 19, 2025 at 11am PT	What can I ask in this AMA about ITSI? How can I incorporate ITSI's AI-powered features like EventIQ to help reduce alert noise? What kinds of Executive Dashboards can I build to visualize the health of the business? How can I respond to issues faster with features like Episode Summarization? Anything else you’d like to learn!

PLATFORM

Office Hours | Platform: Data Management & Federation

November 20, 2025 at 11am PT

What can I ask in this AMA? How do Edge Processor/Ingest Processor and Federated Search for Amazon S3 work together? Can I get a demo? How can I configure Edge Processor in Splunk Enterprise (on-prem)? How can I onboard data from any data store or end points? How does Splunk enable data federation across Amazon Security Lake (ASL) and S3? What tools are available to me? How can I optimize my Edge Processor or Ingest Processor SPL2 pipelines? Anything else you’d like to learn!

APPDYNAMICS

Webinar | AIOps and Splunk AppDynamics Anomaly Detection

November 26, 2025 at 10am CET

Customers will learn how AppDynamics Anomaly Detection enhances visibility across applications and services by automatically highlighting abnormal behavior, accelerating troubleshooting, and improving operational efficiency.