The Truth About the Splunk versus ELK Arguments I feel the need to write this because of how many dishonest articles there are about the Splunk vs ELK debate. It seems like either the writers used both applications for a single day and knew the bare basics or that they have extraordinarily simplistic use cases to test. So, naturally, I
One of the things that makes doing Splunk operations and infrastructure work so much easier and faster is having a bashrc profile (assuming you’re running Splunk for Unix) that aliases a lot of the common commands. This is a quick step by step on how to create a bashrc profile for Splunk. Create a bashrc profile for the default ssh
Over the years I have collected some basic (and advanced) tips and tricks for utilizing Splunk – both from an operational standpoint of server maintenance as well as from the standpoint of alert, report and dashboard creation. Below are some of the most basic search tips that I have, additional posts are to follow for more advanced tips and tricks.
Below is a script I wrote to pull large data sets of Active Directory data using Python 3 and ldap3. I didn’t see any blogs that fulfilled my particular use case so I figured I would post a working version that I have. I have truncated all sensitive information out with <TRUNC> so be sure to replace that with the respective