Platform: Splunk Search & New SPL Innovations - 11/21/24
Register here. Ask the experts at Community Office Hours! An ongoing series where technical Splunk experts answer questions and provide how-to guidance on various Splunk product and use case topics.
In this special session on "Splunk Search & New SPL Innovations", Splunk experts kick us off with a round-robin to showcase the latest innovations in search, such as the Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app, Federated Search for Amazon S3, and SPL2.
What can I ask in this AMA?
- How can I reduce my skipped searches?
- How do I translate my question into SPL?
- How can I optimize this search query so it runs faster?
- How do I set up federated search for Splunk?
- What are the advantages of using federated search for Amazon S3?
- How do I convert my SPL into SPL2?
- My search is not displaying properly, how do I fix it?
- How do I create an alert/visualization/dashboard from my search?
Please submit your questions at registration. You can also head to the #office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here).
Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants.
Look forward to connecting!
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Here are a few questions from the session (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel):
Q1: What are the advantages of SPL2 and how is it different from SPL?
- SPL2 takes the best of SPL (while maintaining backwards compatibility)
- Adds support for SQL-style syntax and developer concepts found in other languages like Java and Python.
- SPL2 supports streaming data and batch search in Splunk Enterprise / Cloud
- SPL2 also introduces programming concepts for developers & admins
- SPL2 Documentation
Q2: How does Splunk manage data privacy with the AI Assistant? What data is shared and how is it used?
- The assistant cannot “see” the data you have indexed in your environment. This data is protected and secured by Splunk’s General Terms
- Customers can “opt out” of sharing data with Splunk within the app used for R&D
- The AI Assistant for SPL does not leverage or send your data to 3rd party services or APIs like OpenAI to complete inference
- The AI Assistant fully honors your RBAC because it does not execute SPL on behalf of a user, it routes users to search & reporting where RBAC and workload management are fully honored
- AI Assistant FAQ page
Q3: Is the AI Assistant for SPL conversational?
- Conversationality involves users providing follow-up questions/prompts within a single chat thread.
- Conversationality is not inherent to LLMs and must be coded into the Generative AI application.
- The Write SPL feature is conversational today; however in upcoming release 1.0.5, the engineering team has made significant improvements to the assistants conversational capabilities.
Other Questions/Topics (check the #office-hours Slack channel for responses):
- Favorite innovations in search
- Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app
- Federated Search for Amazon S3
- Splunk Search Processing Language 2 (SPL2)
- New SPL innovations are only for Cloud? What about on-prem?
- How can I find the root cause for skipped searches, when the reason is: "The maximum number of concurrent running jobs for this historical scheduled search on this instance has been reached"
- Is there a cost to use the AI assistant? And how does it impact my SVC utilization?
- What’s the pricing on Federated Search for Amazon S3?
- Create JIRA ATLASSIAN Dashboard using Splunk
