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New to Splunk- requesting guidance on logs

Dawner82
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Would love some guidance about what to look for in the logs

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
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Welcome to Splunk!

What logs do you have?  What you can look for will depend on what you have to work with.

You bought Splunk for a reason.  Look for whatever satisfies that reason.

Look for whatever causes the on-call person to get woken up at night.  Try to catch the problem before it has to be escalated to the on-call.

What keeps the CIO/CISO from sleeping at night (data breach, ransomware, etc.)?  Look for evidence of that.

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