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IntroductionsTony Reinke
National Research Corporation
• Senior Systems Engineer
• Multiple Sites / Multiple Countries
• Active Director, DNS, DHCP, Certificates, Ticket Queue, Phone System, Log Management
• Represent Systems Engineering on the Security Advisory Team
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• Worked in companies from 4 employees to 50,000 employees
• Been in IT for 18 years
• Founded local Splunk User Group
• Coach Youth Football
Other Information
Agenda
• What is Splunk?
• What is Machine Data?
• Splunk’s Interface
• Troubleshooting with Splunk
• Splunk for the End User
• Splunk for Management
• Splunk for the Community
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Splunk Company
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Company (NASDAQ: SPLK)
Business Model / Products
Customers 7,900+
founded2004
first software release2006
HQ San Francisco
On-premise
In the cloud
SaaS
60+
100
of the Fortune 100
Largest license:
Terabytes/day
What Does Machine Data Look Like?
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Machine Data: Any Location, Type, Volume
Online Services Web
Services
ServersSecurity GPS
Location
StorageDesktops
Networks
Packaged Applications
CustomApplicationsMessaging
TelecomsOnline
Shopping Cart
Web Clickstreams
Databases
Energy Meters
Call Detail Records
Smartphones and Devices
RFID
On-Premises
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Platform Support (Apps / API / SDKs)
Enterprise Scalability
Universal Indexing
Answer Any Question
DeveloperPlatform
Report and analyze
Custom dashboards
Monitor and alert
Ad hoc search
What Does Machine Data Look Like?
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Customer ID Order ID
Customer’s Tweet
Time Waiting On Hold
Twitter ID
Product ID
Company’s Twitter ID
Customer IDOrder ID
Customer ID
Sources
Order Processing
Care IVR
Middleware Error
What Does Machine Data Look Like?
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Order ID
Customer’s Tweet
Time Waiting On Hold
Product ID
Company’s Twitter ID
Order ID
Customer ID
Twitter ID
Customer ID
Customer ID
Sources
Order Processing
Care IVR
Middleware Error
Upcoming Meetings
March 2015 MeetingJanuary 2015 Meeting
Location:
First Data in Omaha, NE
Date:
January 28th, 2015 at 6pm
Topics:
• How First Data is using Splunk
• Getting your data in to Splunk
• About Violin Memory
Location:
National Research Corp. in Lincoln, NE
Date:
March 25th, 2015 at 6pm
Topics:
• TBA featured company
• TBA learning
• About Nimble Storage
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Resources
Splunk402Splunk
http://www.splunk.com
500mb/day free
Recorded sessions from .conf2014
Splunk Events
Weekly Demos
Events Splunk will be at
User Group Events
Twitter: @splunk
http://www.splunk402.com
Twitter: @splunk402
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Tony Reinke
Twitter: @tjreinke