For the past four years, Splunk has partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group to conduct a survey that gauges the impact that Splunk has had on the careers and livelihoods of its users. This year, 500 members of our incredible Splunk community participated in our annual Career Impact Survey, confirming what we've already known since we began facilitating this report: Using Splunk, learning Splunk, and getting Splunk Certified pays off — literally! First off, we want to thank each and every one of you who took the time to participate in this year’s survey. Your perspective and insight is crucial and we are so grateful for you all! Read the full 2024 Splunk Career Impact Report here. The core takeaway from this year’s report is that despite the ever-changing and turbulent landscape that is working in tech, knowing Splunk users continue seeing career outcomes that improve markedly every single year. The survey findings made it clear that a strong command over Splunk was seen to positively influence respondents’ career direction, compensation, and opportunities for advancement. The research showed that expertise with Splunk leads to higher compensation, more portable skills, and increased career resilience. It also showed that Splunk Education resources are playing a greater role in upskilling users. Splunk Education, Upskilling, and Career Impact The survey responses collected make it clear that Splunk's educational and community resources are having a significant impact on overall career advancement, with users who demonstrate their upskilled Splunk proficiency seeing the biggest boost in salaries and advancement opportunities. Looking Ahead The 2024 Splunk Career Impact Report highlights the undeniable positive impact that Splunk proficiency and certification have on practitioners’ career and professional advancement.  From increased job security to enhanced market competitiveness, Splunk's impact resonates deeply within the Splunk user community. The survey reaffirms our commitment to empowering professionals with the tools and knowledge necessary to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Thank you again to everyone who participated, and to every member of our outstanding Splunk community for helping us create better, more valuable customer experiences. Want to learn more? Read the entire 2024 Splunk Career Impact Report Find out more about Splunk Education and Certification Save the date for .conf25 in Boston, September 8 - 11! Join us on the Splunk Community Slack! See past Career Impact Reports: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 ... View more

Wake up, babe! New .conf25 dates AND location just dropped!! That's right, this year, .conf25 is taking place September 8 - 11 in Boston, MA!  Experience the new era of .conf with more technical content, more opportunities to build connections with industry leaders, more cutting-edge innovations, and yes –– even more fun. Buckle up for three days of tackling your biggest business challenges, getting the most value from the Splunk products you know and love, earning certifications, and learning new skills from experts and users just like you. Sign up now to get notified when registration opens – you don’t want to miss the chance to: Engage with Splunk solution engineers, product developers, executives, and trust members. Be the first to learn about new product announcements. Connect with thousands of industry peers. Accelerate your career by participating in interactive sessions and becoming Splunk certified. Get hands-on experience with Splunk’s entire product portfolio. Dance the night away at the Search Party! For those members of the community interested in speaking at .conf, the call for speakers will be going out late Winter 2025, so stay tuned for that as well! If you have any questions, please consult the .conf25 FAQs and we can't wait to see you there!! ... View more

Yesterday the entire team at Splunk + Cisco joined the global celebration of CX Day - celebrating our customers, communities, and our employees. As always, we were delighted to recognize the important role that customer experience plays in both our products but also in the experiences that we enable for our customers and partners around the world.  Yesterday, we hosted a LinkedIn Live Discussion moderated by Splunk’s Chief Customer Officer and SVP of Customer and Partner Success at Cisco, Toni Pavlovich with Splunk customers, Dr. Bonnie An Henderson, President and CEO of HelpMeSee and Leonard Wall, Deputy CISO from Clayton Homes. During this discussion they shared their mission on creating a brighter future for all, innovative strategies for elevating customer and employee experiences, delved into key challenges and best practices, and explored the transformative impact of data on outcomes. Additionally, we wanted to give our community an opportunity to discover your customer experience emotional quotient - and why this can be important to you as an employee or how you serve your customers in this digital marketplace. Discover your CX EQ > Finally, we had the distinct pleasure of featuring our customer’s voices in a series of videos. Our customers, including some community members described Splunk in one word, told us about their favorite ‘aha’ moment, discussed their business outcomes, and provided a look at how our CX focus impacted their organization.  Thank you for being a part of our Splunk Community, we celebrate you, our customers every day! ... View more

Hey there, Splunk Community! Exciting news: Splunk’s GovSummit 2024 is returning to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, December 11, and registration is now open! We are so thrilled to invite you and your colleagues to experience this no-cost, industry-leading event (psst, that means it's FREE!) We’ve got a full program with engaging speakers, networking opportunities, and more. Register today to discover the latest updates from Splunk — including new compliance investments and innovations in AI — that protect critical infrastructure, improve process automation, increase efficiency, and reduce visibility gaps. Attend a keynote, breakouts, bootcamps, and networking sessions and leave with actionable steps to strengthen your cybersecurity strategy by:  - Implementing Zero Trust - Designing a SOC for the future - Advancing cybersecurity and AI - Protecting critical infrastructure and high-value assets Hear from Splunk executives, including Gary Steele (President, Go to Market, Cisco), Mike Horn (Sr. Vice President, GM, Security), Bill Rowan (VP, Public Sector), and more! Event Details Wednesday, December 11, 2024 7:30 am - 4:30 pm EST Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. Register now and we hope to see you there! ... View more

Today and every day, Splunk celebrates the importance of customer experience throughout our product, employees, and community. On October 1st, we’ll be taking our celebration to the next level by participating in CX Day. The Customer Experience Professionals Association, focus for CX Day 2024 is “Good CX delivers better outcomes for customers, employees and organizations.” To build off this theme, Splunk developed an interactive quiz to help you, our customers identify your CX emotional quotient, and why this can be important to you as an employee or how you serve your customers in this digital marketplace.  CX Day is on Tuesday, October 1st. To celebrate, we’ve arranged a remarkable panel to dive into the critical impact of an exceptional customer experience. Join Toni Pavlovich, Splunk’s Chief Customer Officer (and SVP of Customer and Partner Success at Cisco) and our panelists Dr. Bonnie An Henderson, President and CEO of HelpMeSee and Leonard Wall, Deputy CISO from Clayton Homes for an engaging discussion on elevating customer success for a brighter future by looking at how these organizations are positively impacting their customer’s lives. We sincerely thank you for being a part of our Splunk community and love to hear how you feel about customer experience within your organization.  Mark your calendars for 10/1 to join the CX Day LinkedIn Live discussion with us as we celebrate Customer Success everyday! ... View more

We wanted to design a simplified and actionable navigation menu for new and returning community members alike. Check out some of the updates we've made!   "Join the Community" is a new link in our nav bar to make it easier for new members to get started and jump into all that community goodness. "Splunk Answers" has been updated to "Find Answers" and is populated with the most-visited boards, covering major Splunk products and features "News & Education" is where you'll find product announcements, the Splunk Community Blog, and all things Splunk Education "Events" highlights Tech Talks, Office Hours, and User Groups -- all excellent places to connect with Splunk experts around the world, both live and virtually "Apps & Add-ons" brings discussion boards for Splunk Developers under one roof And finally, "Resources" is where you'll find links out to our sister websites to continue you learning journeys. Happy exploring, Splunk Community! ... View more

Congratulations are due to the winners of Splunk's first-ever Community Dashboard Challenge!! Read on on the details of these winning dashboards.   Alexander Romanauskas    This dashboard monitors the productivity of chickens in the coop. It includes daily weather and sunrise/sunset data input via REST API, along with records of the daily amounts of food and water consumed and the number of eggs collected.       Martin Hettervik These dashboards are part of an app that Martin created to visualize Nessus security scans in Splunk. Inspired by the Tenable App for Splunk, Martin aimed to enhance visualizations for better data comprehension and navigation. The first dashboard provides an overview of all vulnerability scans, using color coding to differentiate severity levels. It highlights environments and hosts with the most vulnerabilities, shows the types of prevalent vulnerabilities, the period of scan data, and the number of scanned networks. The drilldown dashboards offer detailed views of vulnerabilities per host, with clickable tables for more information about specific hosts and direct links to the Tenable website for detailed vulnerability information. Users can filter vulnerabilities by severity and other criteria. The dashboards integrate with the Splunk ES asset list for sorting vulnerabilities by business group or environment and include a lookup feature for "ignored vulnerabilities," allowing users to exclude specific vulnerabilities from the dashboards.   Vijeta Galani This dashboard is to monitor cyber and Infra critical cloud applications. This makes use of website ping and RSS feeds. It gives an overview of application status and also has drill down action which shows detailed timeline for each application. The first panel shows if the website is up and running. It also captures slow response and displays it under Warning. If the website is down or returns status other than 200 it displays under Error count. The 2nd panel is for displaying RSS feed within the given timeframe for certain applications that are critical for day to day operations. On clicking the non-zero entries from the Website status count, it displays the details on the applications that were in error/warning/OK status along with the response code and trendline.   Chris Kaye  This dashboard builds on the Splunk tutorial data set and uses pan and zoom to set timeframes for a drilldown into the state of request events allowing the user to easily investigate anomalies in response data, showing and hiding drilldown panels as the user pursues their investigation. It also uses hidden capabilities of standard charts to help visualise recent data compared to historic data. CSS is also used to enhance the visual impact of the dashboard. Mike Wang The Risky Signin Analytic Dashboard presents risky sign-in events from Azure AD (now known as Entra ID) in an easily understandable visual display. It correlates multiple valuable data in a risky sign-in event investigation, lists common sign-in attributes for comparison with rare sign-in attributes, and describes threat activities as clearly and systematically as possible. For example, highlighting risky accounts with both sign-in failures and successes and ordering sign-in events by time can help identify potential impossible travel activities, etc. The Risky Signin Analytic Dashboard can be used to: Monitor for unusual account risky sign-in activities. Analyze risky account events with both successful and failed sign-ins. Serve as an auxiliary tool for Entra AD incident/alert event analysis. Strengthen the security posture of identity verification by reviewing risky sign-in events, such as optimizing the settings of Conditional Access Policy and whether the account has enabled multi-factor authentication, etc. Our Thanks & Feedback Congratulations to all the winners! 🏆 Your outstanding work has not only earned you recognition but also contributed to the growth and knowledge of the entire Splunk Community. We would also like to extend our thanks to our panel of judges for their time and effort in evaluating the entries, as well as to all community members for their support and engagement. For folks who participated, as well as those who would like to participate in future challenges, submit your feedback here.       ... View more

You may have seen mention of the .conf Community Zone 'round these parts and found yourself wondering what that even means. Well, I'm here to 'splain it all! The Community Zone is a specially-designed section of the show floor at .conf where we'll celebrate all things Community (aka, all of YOU!) Join us there to mix and mingle with other users in the Splunk community — including members of the SplunkTrust™, connect with User Groups in your region, nosh, rest, and get your questions answered! In the .conf24 Community Zone, you'll be able to: Connect with each other over a game of horseshoes or chess! Learn more about our various community platforms, such as: The SplunkTrust and Splunk MVP Programs Splunk Answers Splunk Community Slack In-person & virtual Splunk User Groups  Reenergize at the Relaxation Station Learn from community members via our Splunk Champions Lightning Talks! And enjoy a variety of programming at the Spotlight Stage, such as: The 2024 SplunkTrust™ Induction Ceremony Unveiling Resilient Strategies to Connect A Fireside Chat with the Splunk Customer Advisory Board Inside the Lightbulb with Splunk Ideas .conf is Just the Beginning: Bringing Community Home and more! We can't wait to see you there! PS: Can't join us in Vegas this year? Be sure to tune into our virtual Global Broadcast on June 11 and 12! ... View more

Howdy, Splunk Community! Just your friendly neighborhood community team member popping in to remind you all that the application/nomination period will remain open through 11:59 PM local time on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.   APPLY to join the SplunkTrust or NOMINATE a fellow Splunk practitioner now!   SplunkTrust Application Qualifications Must be a Splunk Customer or Partner Is kind, considerate, and follows the Splunk Community Guidelines Must be actively involved year-round in at least one of the following areas: Splunk Answers Responds/provides solutions Extra consideration to official Splunk Answers Community Moderators Splunk Community Slack Responds to and helps users navigate Splunk and answer product questions and directs users to resources To join the Splunk Community Slack workspace, visit: splk.it/slack Splunk User Groups Leads an official and active Splunk User Group or Guest speaker at multiple Splunk User Group events Other considerations: User Group local team (i.e. sources venues, checks in attendees, promotes chapter/events, etc. but is not officially on leadership team) SplunkTrust membership is available to Splunk customers and partners only. New members are inducted each year at Splunk .conf., where new and returning members are also awarded and recognized. Benefits of being part of SplunkTrust: Major street cred, of course!  Complimentary .conf pass Splunk education credits Behind-the-scenes access to Splunk products news and announcements Provide feedback to internal Splunk teams Opportunities to engage in external Splunk advocacy So what are you waiting for? APPLY to join the SplunkTrust now! Looking to nominate someone else to apply for the SplunkTrust instead? Just click here! Again, the nomination period ends at 12 AM local time on March 14th. Cheers! ... View more

It's that time again, folks! That's right, the application/nomination period for the 2024 SplunkTrust is officially open!  Are you a member of the Splunk Community who thrives on helping others? Or have you noticed a Community member enthusiastically helping Splunk users on a regular basis?   SplunkTrust membership is awarded based on user contributions to the Splunk community through Splunk Answers, Splunk Community Slack, speaking at Splunk and industry events, and participating in other Splunk Community opportunities.   APPLY to join the SplunkTrust or NOMINATE a fellow Splunk practitioner now! You can also read on for more details on the qualifications for potential SplunkTrustees.       The application/nomination period will remain open through 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.   SplunkTrust Application Qualifications Must be a Splunk Customer or Partner Is kind, considerate, and follows the Splunk Community Guidelines Must be actively involved year-round in at least one of the following areas: Splunk Answers Responds/provides solutions Extra consideration to official Splunk Answers Community Moderators Splunk Community Slack Responds to and helps users navigate Splunk and answer product questions and directs users to resources To join the Splunk Community Slack workspace, visit: splk.it/slack Splunk User Groups Leads an official and active Splunk User Group or Guest speaker at multiple Splunk User Group events Other considerations: User Group local team (i.e. sources venues, checks in attendees, promotes chapter/events, etc. but is not officially on leadership team) Consideration also goes to those who assist the Splunk Community in other ways - speak at industry events, mentoring individuals, participating in Customer Advisory Boards, etc. (Please retain links to event pages and resources to cite in application/nomination form.) SplunkTrust membership is available to Splunk customers and partners only. New members are inducted each year at Splunk .conf., where new and returning members are also awarded and recognized. Benefits of being part of SplunkTrust: Major street cred, of course!  Complimentary .conf pass Splunk education credits Behind-the-scenes access to Splunk products news and announcements Provide feedback to internal Splunk teams Opportunities to engage in external Splunk advocacy So what are you waiting for? APPLY to join the SplunkTrust now! Looking to nominate someone else to apply for the SplunkTrust instead? Just click here! ... View more

IDC Report: Enterprises Gain Higher Efficiency and Resiliency With Migration to Cloud  Today many enterprises are adopting a cloud-first strategy to get faster time to value and scale their business. As expansion to the cloud continues, IT leaders are continuously looking for better ways to strengthen security and focus more on driving business value.   Register for our Get Resiliency in the Cloud event, taking place January 18th, 2024 from 8:30 - 11:30 AM PST, to hear directly from IDC and Pacific Dental Services share benefits and best practices for migrating to cloud.  Migrating on-premises deployments to Splunk Cloud Platform delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers a win-win for enterprises. In this white paper, IDC examines the drivers and benefits of moving to the cloud across three current Splunk customers who migrated to Splunk Cloud Platform and saw immediate benefits:  HSBC: Accelerated time to value and increased scalability by >300% Pacific Dental Services: Increased operational efficiencies by more than 40% GAF: Realized annual cost savings by 20% By moving to Splunk Cloud Platform, these organizations were able to free IT operations and security teams from the daily maintenance of on-premises solutions, reduced administrative overhead costs, streamlined upgrade cycles, improved cross-team collaboration, and enabled businesses to provide new offerings to their customers quickly. As a bonus, they have been able to take advantage of new features and versions quickly and with less risk.  As more and more firms see flat or negative budgets in the coming year, the need for more efficient operations and quicker time to value means that the growth of cloud and SaaS solutions is likely to rapidly continue. As enterprises migrate new deployments to the cloud, proper planning, understanding the migration process, and managing the impact across people and technologies is essential. Besides reporting the customer benefits of migrating to cloud, IDC provides a comprehensive blueprint on the best practices and recommendations for completing a successful migration to the cloud, delivered as a SaaS solution. This blueprint includes considerations such as leadership buy-in, extensive up-front planning, thorough understanding of the on-premises environment, available tools, services and resources from the vendor before migration. It recommends several pieces of advice for IT leaders and teams moving to the cloud regardless of the target SaaS provider.  Learn more:  Register for the cloud event Get Resiliency in the Cloud to hear from IDC and Pacific Dental Services share benefits and best practices for migrating to cloud. Read the full IDC report - Enterprises Report Benefits of Migrating to Splunk Cloud Platform. ... View more

For the past three years, Splunk has partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group to conduct a survey that gauges the impact that Splunk has had on the careers and livelihoods of its users. This year, 750 members of our incredible Splunk community participated in our annual Career Impact Survey, confirming what we've already known since we began facilitating this report: Using Splunk, learning Splunk, and getting Splunk Certified pays off — literally! First off, we want to thank each and every one of you who took the time to participate in this year’s survey. Your perspective and insight is crucial and we are so grateful for you all!  The core takeaway from this year’s report is that despite the ever-changing and rather turbulent landscape that is working in tech, knowing Splunk remains an incredibly valuable skill. Knowledge of Splunk, including taking official Splunk Education courses and getting Splunk Certified, helps folks feel more secure in their roles, more comfortable weathering economic conditions outside of their control, and ultimately results in greater compensation and opportunities for advancement. Read the full 2023 Splunk Career Impact Report here. Splunk Knowledge = Career Resilience The survey findings made it clear that a strong command over Splunk was seen to positively influence respondents’ career direction, compensation, and opportunities for advancement.  Splunk users with higher proficiency levels were 2.7 times more likely to have received job promotions in the past year. The survey also indicated that users with certifications and higher Splunk proficiency earn almost 131% more than their peers. We also learned that 72% of those surveyed felt confident in their career resilience and that Splunk proficiency is key to accelerating their professional journey. Employer Recognition and Market Competitiveness Splunk's impact goes beyond individual careers, extending to organizational success. An astounding 86% of respondents attributed their organization's strengthened competitive position to the utilization of Splunk.  Respondents also attributed being more Splunk proficient with feelings of greater self-worth and value in their profession and career. The survey further revealed that professionals with high Splunk proficiency were 60% more likely to feel valued by their employers.  Looking Ahead The 2023 Splunk Career Impact Survey highlights the undeniable positive impact that Splunk proficiency and certification have on practitioners’ career and professional advancement.  From increased job security to enhanced market competitiveness, Splunk's impact resonates deeply within the Splunk user community. The survey reaffirms our commitment to empowering professionals with the tools and knowledge necessary to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Thank you again to everyone who participated, and to every member of our outstanding Splunk community for helping us create better, more valuable customer experiences. Want to learn more? Read the entire 2023 Splunk Career Impact Report Find out more about Splunk Education and Certification Save the date for .conf24 in Las Vegas, June 11 - 14! Join us on the Splunk Community Slack! See past Career Impact Reports: 2022 | 2021 | 2020 ... View more

In today's hyper connected digital world, ensuring reliability and security is top of mind concerns for most businesses. Factoring in the hybrid and multi-cloud reality, larger attack surfaces, and continuing expansion of the cloud, adds to the complexity that is unlike anything organizations have faced. As a result IT leaders are continuously looking for ways to build a stronger foundation of resiliency and security for their cloud.  Splunk delivers a better way for your business to drive higher resiliency and security while you move deployments to the cloud. By migrating deployments to Splunk Cloud Platform - Splunk Platform capabilities delivered as software as a service (SaaS), your teams can focus on high-value tasks while your organization benefits from Splunk’s deep expertise and continuous investment in innovation. When your teams don’t have to worry about maintaining or regularly updating your cloud platform for security, compliance and performance, since Splunk does it all, your teams can focus more on harnessing data’s full potential to drive higher business efficiency and scale. In this cloud community campaign, we will take you through the journey of migrating to Splunk Cloud Platform with success, and share the tools and resources you will need to accelerate your journey to the cloud. As part of this campaign over the next few months we will share with you why Splunk Cloud Platform delivered as a service is an ideal solution to move your on-prem deployments to cloud and show you how you can: Build Value Examine the considerations and benefits that are driving enterprises to migrate to Splunk Cloud Platform to build higher efficiency, security, at scale.     Get Your Cloud On Get started by getting data in Splunk Cloud Platform using a variety of methods. Splunk is here to help answer any questions to make your transition to cloud easy. Deploy Use Cases Explore the Security and IT Modernization use cases that can be accomplished with the Splunk Cloud Platform. Take your use cases to the next level with ML and AI. Realize Value Get simplified experience to administer and extract more value from your cloud platform using Splunk tools and resources designed for your success.   So, fasten your seat belts and embark on the journey of Building a Foundation of Resilience for Your Cloud. Let’s start the journey by experiencing the drivers and business benefits from leaders and practitioners who chose migrating to Splunk Cloud Platform as a better way to supercharge their value realization. Download the new IDC analyst report to learn from current Splunk customers HSBC, Pacific Dental Services and GAF on how moving deployments to the Splunk Cloud Platform helped them achieve their desired business outcomes:  HSBC: Accelerated time to value and increased scalability by >300% Pacific Dental Services: Increased operational efficiencies by more than 40% GAF: Realized annual cost savings by 20%  Get more information on Migrating to Splunk Cloud Platform here. ... View more

Happy CX Day, Splunk Community! CX stands for Customer Experience, and today, October 3rd, is CX Day — a global celebration of the organizations, professionals, and customers themselves that are at the heart of creating better customer experiences. For us here at Splunk, our community of customers (aka YOU all!) are of the utmost importance and at the forefront of all that we do. We are so excited to recognize our incredible customers and community’s achievements today — and every day! Join us today for a LinkedIn Live at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET, as our Chief Customer Officer, Toni Pavlovich, speaks with CX Futurist, Blake Morgan, about how building resilience helps transform the customer experience to drive better business outcomes. Want to learn more? Peep the following Splunk resources we’ve curated to unpack the importance of CX and see how companies can be more resilient by prioritizing CX companywide, and be sure to read Toni Pavlovich’s CX Day Announcement. The Splunk Community also offers a myriad of ways to engage with fellow members within our vibrant, passionate community, enhancing your overall customer experience. Check out a few of them below! Splunk Answers: Troubleshoot, ask questions, and dig into conversations with fellow community members over on Splunk Answers. Not sure where to start? Share your examples of great customer experiences in honor of CX Day! User Groups: Find a local chapter to join and meet local Splunk users IRL, or connect with one another across the globe virtually! Community Slack: Troubleshoot your issues and connect with fellow Splunk users in real time SplunkTrust: Meet some of our Splunk superusers and most active community contributors Splunk Ideas: Have an idea on how to make Splunk and your overall customer experience even better? Great! Contribute them here. Lastly, we’d like to say a hearty THANK YOU to all of the  community members who, throughout the years, have given us invaluable feedback and support. You drive us to want to create a better experience for each and every one of you, and we couldn’t do any of this without you! — Splunk Community Team ... View more

Tomorrow is CX Day and we are so excited to be able to shine the spotlight on all things customer experience. At Splunk, we truly believe serving our customers is the bedrock of our business, and that building resilience helps transform the customer experience to drive better business outcomes. Learn more about CX Day and dig into some awesome content we’ve created just for the occasion here. Then join us over on LinkedIn Live tomorrow at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET as Splunk's Chief Customer Officer, Toni Pavlovich, chats with CX influencer, Blake Morgan. It'll be a conversation full of learning, fun, and celebration.   What does Customer Experience mean to you? Have an example of a particularly amazing customer experience? Drop your thoughts below! ... View more

Are you ready to take your Splunk journey to the next level? 🚀 We invite you to join our elite squad of Customer Advisory Board (CAB) members and be part of shaping the future of Splunk products! 🌟 Why should you consider becoming a CAB member? 🤔 Let us break it down for you: 🔍 Direct Impact: Your feedback will directly influence the development of Splunk products. 📈 Roadmap Outlook: Get exclusive insights into the Splunk product roadmap. 💡 Product Insights: Participate in feedback sessions with the Splunkers who build the products you use daily to help enhance user experiences. 🚀 Exclusive Preview Access: Be the first to see and provide input on products and features before they launch. 👥 Networking: Connect with like-minded professionals and share best practices. But that's not all! CAB members can choose to join one or more of our four specialized advisory boards:  🔒 Security 👁️ Observability  ☁️ Splunk Cloud Platform 🏢 Splunk Enterprise Platform We meet quarterly via Zoom, making it convenient for you to attend and share your valuable insights. Plus, all sessions are recorded and shared with CAB members and internal Splunk teams, so your voice will continue to make an impact, even if you can't make it to every meeting. Who are we looking for? Splunk Admins, System Engineers & Architects, Security Engineers, SOC Analysts, Application Developers, Service Owners, SRE’s, Product teams - if you're a daily Splunk user, we want YOU! 🌟 Ready to sign up and be part of the CAB crew? Click the link below to embark on this exciting journey with us! 🚀✨ ➡️ Sign Up Here! Let's shape the future of Splunk together! 💪 ... View more

Are you making the most out of the Splunk Education training units provided by your company? If you’re not, we’ve got a fun program to incentivize you! The Splunk Learning Rewards Program. How It Works Participating in the Splunk Learning Rewards Program is a breeze. Here's what you need to do: Complete any paid-for Splunk Education Course: Choose from a variety of options, including eLearning with Labs and Instructor-Led Training, tailored to your preferences and learning style. Feel Accomplished: As you finish each course, take pride in your new knowledge and skills, knowing that you're one step closer to earning cool rewards. Access the Learning Rewards Site: Head over to the Learning Rewards Site and log in with your Splunk.com credentials. There, you can view the points you've earned and redeem them for fantastic Splunk swag. New accrued points show up within 48 - 72 hours after completing a course. Repeat: Don't stop with just one course! Keep participating, learning, and earning points for more exciting rewards.  Prizes, prizes, prizes! Interested in knowing what some of the rad rewards you can redeem points for? Check out this list of the Top 5 most popular prizes below! #5: New Era Hat (15 points) #4: Laptop Sticker (2 points)  #3: Nobody puts data in corner Unisex T-Shirt (11 points) #2: h2go Silo (15 points) And the #1 most popular Learning Rewards prize: Take the sh out of IT Unisex T-Shirt (11 points) So what are you waiting for? Start accruing (and redeeming!) your points now, while learning all the latest & greatest Splunk info at the same time! Want to Learn More? If you have any questions or need further details about the Splunk Learning Rewards Program, don't worry! We've got you covered with our comprehensive Splunk Learning Rewards FAQs. Additionally, you can check out this fun video that explains how the program works. Happy learning (and earning!) Please note that the Splunk Learning Rewards Program is exclusively available for customer-learners. Unfortunately, partners, Splunkers, SplunkWork+ Programs, or subscription customers are not eligible for this program. ... View more

Hear ye, hear ye! 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. The survey will ask questions about you, your organization, your depth of Splunk knowledge, and your career. Any and all information you provide will be anonymized, so rest assured that your privacy and data will be 100% protected. The survey may take ~20 minutes to complete, and the first 600 qualified respondents to complete the survey will receive a $25 Amazon gift card as our thanks for participating!  We will: Anonymize, summarize, and aggregate all submitted responses Publish the results and share them back with the community Provide a $25 Amazon gift card for the first 600 qualified completed responses We will NOT: Use your responses for any marketing purposes whatsoever Share your responses with recruiters, partners, or vendors 📋 Take the survey! And check out the findings from last year's report here. Thank ye, thank ye! - The Splunk Community Team ... View more

Did you know that Splunk Education offers more than 60 absolutely FREE training and education courses? Whether you're a brand spankin' newbie or a seasoned Splunk user looking to branch out or brush up on your knowledge, there's a little something for everyone. Check out the full roster of free courses over on Splunk Education! And want to stay in the know on even more training, certification, and education news? Make sure you subscribe to the indexEducation newsletter! ... View more

Background Customer-configured Email-based alerting is a first-class workflow supported by Splunk. We know how vital alerting can be to our customers. To help ensure that you continue receiving any configured email-based alerts from your stacks, please take a moment to review a summary of changes being introduced. Splunk Cloud Platform is enhancing its outbound email delivery capabilities to provide a more robust, multi-region email delivery service with increased limits on the email payload size.  Summary of Changes (Splunk will notify our customers the changes prior to the rollout by cohort by email) Change Description Customer Impact Custom MAIL FROM Standard stacks: The MAIL FROM value in the SMTP envelope of emails originating from Splunk Cloud Platform and SOAR stacks will change from pm.mtasv.net to mail.splunkcloud.com. Emails will continue having the From field set to alerts@splunkcloud.com FedRAMP Moderate stacks: MAIL FROM value in the SMTP envelope of emails originating from Splunk Cloud stacks will change from pm.mtasv.net to mail.splunkcloudgc.com. Emails will continue having the From field set to alerts@splunkcloudgc.com No downtime expected.  If you need clarification on any existing network policies at your end, please contact Customer Support so we may work with you to help ensure that you continue receiving email-based alerts. Dynamic IP addresses for origin mail server The origin email server is expected to have a dynamic IP address range in the future compared to the current state of a well-known IP address range.    Enhancement Description Customer Impact Multi-region Support Email originating from customer stacks will now be routed via servers that are region-local to customer stack.  None. No action required. Email size Email size, including body/text/images/ attachments, will be increased from 10MB to 40MB. None. No action required.   Impacted stacks All Splunk Cloud stacks hosted on AWS and GCP All SOAR stacks FedRAMP Moderate stacks  Roadmap Initiatives We are also excited to let you in on some of our future roadmap initiatives following this change: Automating management of suppressed emails There have been cases where domains/email addresses have been reported as erroneously blocked resulting in undelivered emails for customers. With the eventual goal of self-service, we will start automating remediation workflows for email suppression use cases.  Number of recipients Customers are currently able to send an email notification for alerts to multiple customer-configured recipients not exceeding a count of 50 (Sum of the number of recipients in To, CC, BCC fields). We will allow this number to be adjusted. ... View more

.conf may be over, but the opportunities to get together with your fellow Splunk users have only just begun! Check out some upcoming User Group events below, and head to usergroups.splunk.com to see even more! Don't have one happening in your region? Plan one!   Pro Tip: if you see a 📡 symbol, it means it's a virtual or hybrid event that you can join from anywhere!   Düsseldorf - August 7th: Rhineland Splunk User Group Summer Meeting 📡 Get together at COCUS AG. COCUS is an IT Solution & Service Provider and the data lovers will welcome you at the Düsseldorf location close to Seestern! We will start with the latest news of the .conf and continue the evening with an immersive journey about process automation and data-driven insights with Splunk's Process Engine. Dallas - August 8th: Dallas Area Splunk User Group (DASUG) Choose Your Own Adventure 📡 Best of .conf23, what's new in v9.1.0.1 and/or reviewing some of the funky support cases that we have had lately, some of which have resulted in very deep understanding of edge cases of the way some features and commands in Splunk work.   Sydney - August 10th: Sydney Splunk User Group Meeting Disappointed you missed out on Taylor Swift tickets? Well don't worry, shake it off, you can still make it to the Splunk User Group! There'll be plenty to talk about following .conf23, so why not do it over a casual drink & pizza! Perth - August 10th: Splunk Perth User Group August .conf Recap As Vegas is a long way from Perth, let me bring Vegas to you with a recap of the highlights from our .Conf event. Come and meet your local Splunk team, users and partners while sharing some snacks and beverages.  Atlanta - August 15th: ATL Splunk User Group Meeting The August 2023 Splunk ATL meeting will be a recap of all the Splunk goodness announced at .conf 2023! Come out and join us at Tekstream for lunch and hear all about the latest and greatest news from Splunk! Speaker TBA. Washington, DC - August 15th: Threat Intelligence into Splunk ES Recorded Future will demo customer use cases of leveraging Intelligence inside of Splunk. The focus will be on enrichment of IOCs, correlation, threat detection and hunting, vulnerability prioritization and alerting. Toronto - August 16th: Splunk Toronto User Group (STUG) August Meeting  Please join us for the August Splunk Toronto User Group event. Oslo - August 17th: Oslo Splunk User Group Meeting We are getting ready for the next Oslo Splunk User Group, hosting by Sena at PlusArena. Enjoy several stories from the real world, and an update from .conf! Harrisburg - August 21st: Harrisburg Splunk User Group Meeting 📡 Couldn't attend .conf23 this year? Join us as we re-hash the ups, downs, lefts, and rights of .conf23! Baltimore - August 21st: Baltimore Post-.conf Review 📡 Couldn't attend .conf23 this year? Join us as we re-hash the ups, downs, lefts, and rights of .conf23! Dresden - August 21st: Sommertreffen der Splunk UG Dresden Robotron lädt euch zum nächsten Dresden Splunk User Group Treffen am 22. August 2023 ein. Milwaukee - August 24th: Best of .conf Live and Local Join us for an In-Person meeting to review the product highlights and new products announcements from this years .conf followed by a Happy Hour at Sport Club near our event sponsor, Northwestern Mutual, downtown Milwaukee location.   ---------   Be sure to check out all the additional events that are happening this month and next here.   ... View more

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the .conf23 SplunkTrust induction ceremony this evening! We are thrilled to have gotten the chance to celebrate in person with some of you as you received your fezes at .conf23! A huge congrats to all new and returning members of the .conf23 SplunkTrust: New 2023 SplunkTrust Members Gerald Cato Giuseppe Cusello Johannes Effland Vatsal Jagani Sebastian Kramp Mariusz Kruk Guilhem Marchand Mark McCullough Sanjay Reddy Gaddam James Sevener Somesh Soni Keara Spoor Balaji Thambisetty Bradley Walsh Returning SplunkTrust Members Brett Adams Ryan Adler Gareth Anderson Michael Bentley Steven Bochniewicz Mika Borner Antony Bowesman Becky Burwell Shawn Cannon Suat Celikok Siddhartha Chakraborty Mary Cordova Aleem Cummins Mhike Funderburk Suman Gajavelly Rich Galloway Lakshmanan Ganesan Javier García Nieva Adam Gold Björn Hansen Dal Jeanis Rohit Joshi Nancy Kafer Chris Kaye Steve Koelpin Tom Kopchak Matthias Kowalewski Charles Kuykendall Yuan Liu Alex Lu Rich Mahlerwein Nick Mealy Manjunath Meti Madison Moss Martin Müller Renjith Nair Cary Petterborg Ryan Plas Gregory Rivas Shawn Routhier Nadine Shillingford David Shpritz Diogo Silva Michael Simko Kyle Smith Ismo Soutamo Daniel Spavin Matt Uebel Michael Uschmann Kamlesh Vaghela Dominique Vocat Duane Waddle Colby Williams Tom Wise Yutaka Yamada Srikanth Yarlagadda Chris Younger And a huge congrats (and thank you!) to our incredible honorary SplunkTrust members as well! New 2023 Honorary SplunkTrust Members Tedd Hellmann Chris Perkins Lou Stella John "Okie" Welch Returning Honorary SplunkTrust Members John Billings Gregg Daly Ari Donio Dustin Eastman Christopher Gales Rich Galloway Maarten Hoogcarspel David Hourani Charlie Huggard Kate Lawrence-Gupta Jamie Malcak Harshil Marvania Caroline McGee Clara Merriman Nadine Miller Matthew Modestino Brian Osburn David Paper Nate Plamondon Michael Simko Jesse Trucks David Twersky Russell Uman Tom West Michael Simko Jesse Trucks David Twersky Russell Uman Tom West ... View more