Splunk Edge Processor provides you with new abilities to filter, mask, and otherwise transform your data, before routing it to supported destinations. Check out this list of common use cases that Splunk Edge Processor can address to help you build Security and Observability resilience!

At Splunk, it's our mission to help our customers use our products more successfully to build greater digital resilience. So to kick off the new year, we are excited to offer new onboarding toolkits and learning tracks to help you master our products.

It’s been almost a year since Community Office Hours launched, and we’re excited to keep the momentum going! Check out our upcoming sessions on Edge Processor, Dashboards & Dashboard Studio, Generative AI, Threat Detection and Response Content, and more. Register now to secure your spot! We also want to hear from YOU – share your feedback! Let us know what you’d like to learn more about.

For the past three years, Splunk has partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group to conduct a survey of the Splunk Community and gauge the impact that Splunk has had on the careers and livelihoods of its users. This year, 750 community members participated in our annual Career Impact Survey, and they confirmed what we've already known since this survey began: Using Splunk, learning Splunk, and getting Splunk Certified pays off — literally!

Find out how Splunk supports National Disability Employment Awareness Month and weaves that awareness into its Splunk Education programs.

Got questions? You’re in luck, cause we’ve got answers! Ask the experts at our upcoming Community Office Hours, where technical Splunk experts answer your questions and provide how-to guidance on a different topic every month. Join the 190+ participants who have already benefited from these sessions and register now to secure your spot! 

Check out our list of the top five most popular Learning Rewards Program prizes, and start earning (via learning!) today!

The time has come for Splunk's annual Career Impact Survey! We need your help by filling out the survey linked below and telling us about your career and professional experience with Splunk. Take the survey now!

Have you explored all of the free courses Splunk Education has to offer yet? 

Splunk University is your chance to learn something new, be one of the first to get CDA-certified, and have one last chance to take or renew a sunsetting cert! 

STEP right up to experience a more modern learning journey.

Good change is still change. Find out how to prepare for the launch of the new Splunk Learning Platform on May 22nd! Please note that the current system will be down May 17-21.

There’s a hero in all of us! Upskill-on-demand with our 3-part Hero’s Journey training series.

We’re excited to announce an exclusive new Splunk certification exam is being released at .conf23 along with onsite testing for other certifications!

An industry influencer, a Splunk thought leader, and a current Splunker discuss the power of tech education in this three-part podcast.

New podcast series highlights the critical and growing need for easily-accessible tech education. 

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! 

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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?

In this blog post, we will explore the best way to check your connection to the HEC endpoint of your Splunk Cloud or Splunk on-premises deployment.

Splunk users that are taking their know-how to the next level are happier in their roles, making meaningful contributions within their organizations, and are earning more in their job roles! Now, there are more learning opportunities than ever!