This Week's Community Digest - Splunk Community Happenings [03.07.2022]

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Get the latest news and updates from the Splunk Community here!

New from Product News & Announcements 🆕

We've got some new posts to share from this past week - get 'em while they're hot!

• SOAR Splunk Apps are Getting a Facelift Phantom App for Splunk, Splunk Add-on for Phantom, Phantom Remote Search, and the Splunk App for Phantom Reporting are going to see changes soon.
• Scheduled Export for Dashboard Studio - Limited Availability Release Learn how you can sign up for the Dashboard Studio Scheduled Export Limited Availability Release (LAR) program! 

This Week From Splunk Answers…✍️

We wanted to congratulate the 56 members who posted their very first topic on Splunk Answers this past week! Posting a topic takes a lot of thoughtfulness, research, and sometimes you want an answer quickly as you sort through a project or problem with Splunk. So many questions get answered within...like...minutes. So, it's worth it to take the time to post a topic. And, we get that it's a big ask. Thank you to everyone who went for it:

@xneogenz , @dminguez , @jayeshrajvir , @keanderson , @mikeli621 , @ephremzw , @mmichel , @satishshah158 , @jpfrancetic , @rhenry , @jonare , @marcinss , @ihd , @ritesh5040 , @rajuinbang48 , @rajivsplunk , @manicha , @bhjohns , @AK89 , @ansipar , @Wiessiet , @mjuestel2 , @Deexeh , @sdee1013 , @sara_papa , @tazzvon , @mcsnorkey , @Manware , @gaishi , @rip_leroi , @keen , @beano501 , @random_event , @tlcconsulting , @Marco-IT , @jpurnhag , @ngcdts , @mrunalaghara , @SecDesh , @pbVI , @claudinealbert8 , @sdhiaeddine , @azun4i , @slicedtechsuppo , @santosh1 , @Try_harder , @nagi-bishara , @msmith58 , @Smashley , @adhu , @RedHeron , @mmeredith , @socks , @jporsche , @cabutler10 , @90522prakash 

Do YOU want to start your first topic but just haven't taken the leap? Don't be shy! Go to the Splunk Answers page, click on "Browse the Community", find the most relevant category for your topic, click the "Ask a Question" button (at the top of the page) and get things rolling! The form is easy to fill out and your question will be answered soon (we hope) by another member who is willing to help out 🙂.  What makes a good question, you ask? Well,  here are some quick tips for you:

• One question (not multiple) per post
• Clear but concise title
• Research and attempts you've already done to try solving your problem on your own
• Sample (anonymized) data if relevant
• Formatting like using the Code Sample tool
• Screenshots if applicable
• After receiving replies, accepting the best working one as the solution

Upcoming Community Events 👏

We always have a bevy of events happening in the community, and here are a few highlighted happenings you might want to check out in the upcoming days/weeks:

GLOBAL SPLUNK USER GROUP WEEK IS COMING! (April 4th → April 8th)

Microphones checked, dashboards updated, prizes boxed and ready to ship. Splunk User Group leaders all around the world have prepared for this - Global Splunk User Group Week, April 4-8, 2022. This is our second time hosting this event worldwide and last year's turnout was AMAZING. There's so much opportunity here for learning about User Groups and Splunk best practices, solutions, or even becoming a group leader yourself!

March Upcoming User Groups:

• Austrian Splunk Meetup 3/7: March Meeting (Today!) [RSVP] Splunk on Kubernetes & Use Cases as Code in Enterprise Security.
• In-Person NYC Splunk User Group Social 3/23: [RSVP] Join us for our first in-person gathering in 2 years! Food/drink and other goodies will be happening. This will be exciting to have the option of seeing each other in the same location together again!
• San Francisco Bay Area Meeting 4/6 [RSVP] Speaker and topic will be announced in the coming weeks.

Check out the full list to find more user groups in all locations. All of these events are virtual so go for it and join any User Group in any location you like.

Tech Talks Updates:

These are the very latest of our Tech Talks - don't miss them and do look out for new sessions coming up! You can also check out any of the hundreds of Tech Talks we have to offer on-demand!

• IT Edition: Crawl, Walk, Run: Getting Started with AIOps We'll walk through what it takes to build a world-class IT Operations Management infrastructure with Splunk. From simple alerting to sophisticated event management, deep service insights, predictive analytics, and on-call management.
• Security Edition: What’s New with Enterprise Security 7.0? Explore what is in the newest release of Splunk Enterprise Security and hear from Enterprise Security Product Management leadership about what’s next.
• DevOps Edition: Instrumenting Your Microservices Based JavaScript Application From Start to End In this Splunk Tech Talk, DevOps Edition, we will use a basic NodeJS microservices-based application deployment to learn how to instrument Javascript using the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry JS. We will take a deep dive into the basic code changes and steps required to begin collecting telemetry and understand our customer’s experience.

— Michelle Schlachta, Community + Content at Splunk