Time to toss the .conf-etti 🎉 —  .conf23 registration is open!

Attention everyone! We have exciting news to share! We are recruiting new members for the Mission Possible: Splunk Adoption Challenge, which is now live and available for you to participate in!

This month we’re excited to announce that the Use Case Explorer for the Splunk Platform has arrived! This new tool is designed to inspire as you develop new use cases using either Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform. We’ve also published a ton of new content covering a huge range of products, use cases, and industries! If you want to jump straight to our new articles, scroll to the bottom to read more.

There’s a hero in all of us! Join a 3-part training series to envision the adventures you can have with more Splunk skills under your belt.

Help congratulate our star community contributors that have shown consistent participation in our community programs.

Interested in getting hands-on, live help from a Splunk expert? Look no further! Community Office Hours is a new program that you don’t want to miss. Here, you can ask questions and get live help from a technical Splunk expert on a different topic every month. You must register to attend a session. But spots are limited - so don’t miss out! Check out our list of upcoming sessions and register now to join us.

Between November and January, over 47,000 thirsty-for-knowledge learners took at least one free Splunk Education course -- 5.8K took three or more and were entered into our contest to win Splunk swag! 

By Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, Robin Pille, and Christopher Gales

As part of our long-term documentation strategy, now anyone, from Splunkers to Splunk users, can improve the Splunk Observability Cloud documentation by adding examples, documenting new settings, or fixing issues. By opening the Observability docs for community contribution,  we’ve made it easier to ensure we’re providing the highest quality, most up-to-date content for you to use every day. All you have to do is select the Edit  this page link on any page of the Observability Cloud documentation.

Join us for another free training course, taught by one of our seasoned Splunk instructors, to help you get started with Splunk.

For over a decade Splunk User Groups have helped their local Splunk users find success and provide networking opportunities for the attendees. We are excited to announce a new program for 2023:  Splunk User Groups: Plugged-In. Connect with your local community and Splunk experts, charge up your Splunk knowledge, and share your valuable experience with your peers!

This article is a code-based discussion of passing OpenTelemetry trace context across STOMP protocol pub/sub with a brokered websocket. This example uses Spring Boot for most components and leverages OpenTelemetry's APIs for manual instrumentation.

This month we’re excited to announce the relaunch of the Splunk Success Framework, a comprehensive resource for Splunk program managers to create best-practice processes for Splunk implementation. While we’ve been heavily focused on updating this tool, we’ve also got some new articles to share with you. Read on to find out more.

Marc Alicea shares how free courses from Splunk are opening doors to more opportunities as he pursues a new career in cybersecurity.

Learn more about  the new VirusTotal created and supported application recently published in SplunkBase

We’re excited to announce a new Splunk Love special for 2023: Review Splunk Enterprise Security, Cloud, or Enterprise Platform with Gartner Peer Insights, and you'll snag a $25 Visa gift card from Gartner!

What happens if the OpenTelemetry collector cannot send data? Will it drop, queue in memory or on disk? Let's find out which settings are available and how they work!

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Ruby has recently hit version 1.0. The distribution provides a Ruby gem for reporting distributed traces to Splunk APM using the Ruby OpenTelemetry SDK.

Graduate student, Katie, shares how curiosity led her on a Splunk free training journey during her winter break.

This month, we’re featuring top new articles written by fantastic Splunk partners. We’re also requesting help from Splunkers and partners to help us write articles on a range of hot topics requested by other Splunk customers. If you’re a Splunker or partner with expertise to share, we’d love to hear from you! Read on to find out more.

It’s free. It’s beta. It’s the new Splunk O11y certification! Just one more way to stand out from the crowd.

App Assist monitors the apps in your Splunk Enterprise to ensure they are up-to-date and secure. Have you ever installed an app on your Splunk deployment, stopped using it, and as a result never upgraded? Well, these older versions may be missing critical security patches that the most up-to-date app provides.

In this blog post, we will show you how to set up your Heroku app to use our buildpack. We will show off a sample app that is able to use the collector to report metrics, traces and profiling information to the Observability Cloud.

We foresee that next year will be just as amazing as 2022 has been for learning, sharing, and giving!

We are often asked how to copy http request/response headers into OpenTelemetry span attributes. This short tutorial shows you how to do it with the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation.

Config Assist helps to keep your Enterprise environment safe. It identifies configurations that need changing and provides actionable (copy-paste) recommendations to fix those settings. Do you worry about when the newest vulnerability patch will come out, or when you should run another security check across all your nodes? Fret no more!

This month we’re excited to share some great new video content on Splunk Lantern, produced by our friends at Splunk Education. These videos feature Splunk experts addressing hot topics requested by customers like you, with in-product demos so you can see exactly how to apply their guidance. As well as our new video content, this month we’ve also published lots of other helpful articles to share with you - read on to find out more.

When I had to document how to get data in from Rust applications, I faced an unusually tough challenge. How could I create a snippet for a language I was utterly unfamiliar with and for which we lack a Splunk distribution? The examples in the official OpenTelemetry repository didn't work out of the box. The answer proved simpler than I expected.

Starting today, the community platform may prompt you to participate in a survey.

Remember those hundreds and thousands of forwarders that you have to manage and track certs for? No more! Now, admins can easily identify and mitigate issues related to certificates before they expire and prevent outages or missing data. 

A customer was looking for some guidance around adding custom attributes to spans in their Java monolith. To assist, I put together this example repo that shows five subtly different ways of adding manual instrumentation in Java. Maybe you can find it useful, too?