August 2022
Welcome to the Future of Data Search & Exploration
Working with numerous customers and drawing upon 20+ years of historical feedback, Splunk is pleased to announce the Public Preview of a complete redesign of its core Search experience, accelerating the data-to-insight workflow, and bringing the power of Splunk to everyone.
Learn more about our reimagined investigative experience and how it will help every Splunk user in your organization.
Admin Config Service (ACS) Enhancements
We are excited to announce that with the new Splunk Cloud Product 9.0.2205 release, it is easier to create, manage, and use private apps. Although Splunk is great by itself, we can all agree that the real value of Splunk comes from all the applications that Developers, Splunk Trust members and all members of the Splunk community build. To make private cloud apps even more useful we are introducing optional architecture-specific AppInspect tags to let more private apps be self-serviceable for both Classic and Victoria Experience Cloud stacks.
Introducing Splunk Operator for Kubernetes 2.0
The Splunk Operator for Kubernetes team is extremely pleased to announce the release of version 2.0! The showcase feature for this release — and the reason we bumped the version to 2.0 — is the evolution of our Splunk Operator App Framework. Instead of Administering Splunk through direct manipulation of the App filesystems, you can now acquire Apps and configuration externally via S3. Read more about it in this blog post.
The Convergence of Security and Observability:
Top 5 Platform Principles
Businesses compete on data. All else being equal, businesses that thrive are the ones who use data most effectively and consolidate islands of data. Bringing together security and observability into one holistic platform helps raise the technical focus of ITOps, DevOps and cybersecurity personnel to a broader business concern for managing risk. Explore the five principles to look for in a platform: unified platform, pervasive across use cases, extensible, open, and powerful search performance at scale.
Tech Talks
Platform Edition:
Splunk 9.0 - What’s New and How to Migrate / Upgrade
Tuesday, August 30 | 10am PT / 1pm ET
In June we announced Splunk 9.0 which has a lot of new features and innovations. In this Tech Talk, we will walk you through the new Splunk 9.0 / Splunk Cloud Platform features. These new enhancements help you with end-to-end visibility, rapid investigation and action, and more extensibility. How can you take advantage of these new features? We will show you how to upgrade to Splunk 9.0 and how to upgrade to Splunk Cloud Platform to take advantage of all the new features. Join us August 30th!
Now On Demand
Platform Edition Introducing Ingest Actions: Filter, Mask, Route, Repeat | Security Edition Ready, Set, SOAR: How Utility Apps Can Up Level Your Playbooks! | Observability Edition DevSecOps: Why You Should Care and How to Get Started |
Do More with Lantern
Content is expanding all the time with more ways to help you be successful.
Have you still not checked out Splunk Lantern? Your peers have! From Q2 last year to Q2 this year
- Page views increased 69%
- New users increased 423%, and, drumroll please…
- Returning users increased a whopping 1,475%!
Lots of Splunk customers just like you love the content they find on Splunk Lantern that helps them ramp up quickly, work more efficiently, and achieve their use cases. And the content is expanding all the time with more ways to help you be successful. In July, we added a number of new articles to the Security Use Case Explorer (for example, Creating an Incident Response Plan (IRP)), as well as more articles to help you with our cool observability products, like ITSI (for example, Gaining better visibility into ServiceNow instances in ITSI) and Synthetics (for example, Looking into a failed Real Browser Check (RBC) run.
Check out those and more, and be sure to log in to leave us comments on the bottom of any article to tell us how we're doing.
Find an App with Splunkbase
More app releases and updates since the last newsletter!
- The popular Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Office 365 delivers audit logs for Azure Active Directory, Sharepoint Online, and Exchange Online as well as historical and current service status, and service messages.
- The latest Splunk ES Content Update has too many updates to list, so for full details you can visit the GtiHub project release notes!
- Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services (AWS) includes support for the Inspector v2 API ingestion method and Common Information Model (CIM) mappings for Inspector v2 as well as some bug fixes.Are you building apps and add-ons for Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform? The AppInspect App for Splunk makes it easy to submit your app to the
Splunk Training and Certification
Announcing an entirely new learning experience.
| A new landing page, more filters to the course catalog, a way to browse courses by delivery language, an entire page dedicated to free training and more! New site, same url: splunk.com/education Also set to launch this month is the new Learning Rewards program — gaining new skills and new Splunk swag… what could be better? | ICYMI we are also offering a variety of Fast Start bundles to streamline your learning and registration experience — this means tons of single-subject learning in a single registration. Unsure of where to start? All new learners should check out these three free, self-paced eLearning courses (What is Splunk?, Intro to Splunk, Using Fields) and pick a Fast Start based on your goals. |
Until next month,
Happy Splunking!
