Splunk Lantern is a Splunk 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 highlighting a hot new article that explores how the combined power of the Splunk Model Context Protocol (MCP) and cutting-edge AI can transform your IT operations and security investigations. And mark your calendars, because Splunk Lantern is coming to .Conf 2025 and we're eager to connect with you in person! As always, we're also sharing a wealth of useful new articles published this past month. Read on to find out more.
Unlocking Peak Performance - Leveraging Splunk MCP and AI
Splunk's Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a powerful capability designed to enhance how AI models interact with your data within the Splunk platform. It provides a structured way for these models to understand and utilize the rich context surrounding your data, moving beyond simple pattern recognition to deliver precise and actionable insights for both IT operations and security investigations. We’re excited to share three new articles that show how you can put these new capabilities into practice.
Leveraging Splunk MCP and AI for enhanced IT operations and security investigations is your comprehensive guide to getting started. This article provides all the essential setup and configuration information you need to implement MCP within your Splunk environment, ensuring your AI models can effectively access and interpret your data.
After you've set up MCP, you can immediately put it to work with two powerful use cases. Automating alert investigations by integrating LLMs with the Splunk platform and Confluence shows you how to use MCP to make incident response effortless. If your team struggles with context switching - bouncing between several disparate, disconnected systems to get a full picture for effective incident response - this article shows you how to transform these ineffective processes into powerful conversational workflows.
For security investigations, dive into Leveraging LLM reasoning and ML capabilities for alert investigations, which shows how even novice Splunk users can use natural language to create powerful machine learning models that cut through noise in an ocean of alerts.
Ready to build more intelligent, context-aware AI and ML applications within your Splunk environment? Let us know in the comments below what you think or how you're using MCP!
Get Ready to Rock - Meet Splunk Lantern at .Conf 2025!
The Splunk Lantern team is thrilled to announce our presence at .Conf 2025 in Boston! This event offers a unique chance to connect directly with us, the team dedicated to building and enhancing Splunk Lantern. We're eager to meet you, answer your questions, and gather your invaluable feedback.
This year, we’d especially like Lantern fans to drop by our booth as we’ll be running some important user testing that will shape the feel and functionality of Lantern in the future. Your feedback is incredibly important for our team to continue to make Lantern the most effective and user-friendly resource for Splunk users everywhere. Plus, we’ll have exclusive Lantern swag to give away!
We’re also extremely excited by the news that Weezer are performing. Come and rock out with us at our own “Island in the sun”, the Splunk Lantern booth in the Success Zone!
Everything Else That’s New
Here’s a roundup of all the other articles we’ve published this month:
- Leveraging MLTK's new generative AI capability in security operations
- Compiling the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector
- Monitoring network infrastructure using Splunk Connect for Simple Network Management Protocol (SC4SN...
- Monitoring HL7 traffic security in healthcare settings
- Identifying web application vulnerabilities with Tenable WAS
- Printer data
- Real user monitoring data
- Synthetic monitoring data
- OpenLLMetry data
- Law enforcement data
- Network VPN data
- Deep packet inspection data
- File integrity monitoring data
- Security orchestration, automation, and response data
Thanks for reading. Drop us a comment below if you have any questions, comments, or feedback!
- Kaye Chapman, Senior Lantern Content Specialist for Splunk Lantern
