HEC (HTTP Event Collector) is a super easy way to send data into Splunk. It opens up the opportunity to quickly update a script or application to send data into Splunk without having to install a forwarder or setting up a syslog server.
Have you ever encountered a ‘missing index’ error in Splunk and worried about losing your logs? This article shows you how to set up a ’lastchance’ index to catch those wayward logs, ensuring you don’t lose data even when it’s headed for a non-existent index.
What do you do when you want to reindex logs that have already been indexed by Splunk? This article shows you how to use the ‘fishbucket’ method to reindex your data, whether you indexed it into the wrong index or forgot to create an index before applying your inputs.conf.
Don’t just give it root access! Process of onbaording Linux logs into Splunk using ACLs.
A guide to understanding the difference between a Splunk App and a Splunk Add-On.
A step-by-step guide to setting up Splunk on Windows using WSL with a free Splunk license. We also discuss the different types of Splunk licenses. This guide accompanies the video tutorial on my YouTube channel.
Splunk Admin Config Service (ACS) API is a super powerful tool that allows you to manage your Splunk Cloud instance programmatically. In this post, I’ll showcase some use cases for Splunk Cloud’s ACS API as well as provide some real-world examples.
Splunk users can apply the ut_levenshtein macro from the URL Toolbox app to compare domain names against a reference domain, enabling the detection of potential typosquatting.
Let’s take a look at how to automatically delete old logs when using Syslog-NG. This doesn’t just apply to Syslog-NG, but it’s a common use case.
In this guide, we will walk you through the process of creating a Syslog-NG configuration that caches and organizes syslog data on disk. Additionally, we will delve deep into the structure of the config, examining each option we utilize. Finally, we will explore configuring ‘catch-all’ entries.