by Kristof Vandenborn | Jul 15, 2023 | Big Data, Splunk
Meta what?? This does really sound more complicated than it really is. meta is in face ‘data about data’. You remember from our article about getting data into Splunk, that I told you you should not any time trying to understand sourcetype, source,...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jul 10, 2023 | Big Data, Splunk
Now that you have installed your Splunk Stand Alone machine, it is time to get data into your instance. The easiest way to get data into your Splunk instance will be via a file input. There are however a number of other inputs that we can also configure, but they are...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jul 9, 2023 | Big Data, Splunk
In the last article about Splunk we spoke about the advantages that Splunk offers when working with big data volumes. But let’s say that you want to see & feel like to have Splunk running in your environment, can you start small? Yes, you can, using what is...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 28, 2023 | Big Data, Splunk
(I have no rights to use any official Splunk logos or images as stated in Splunk’s policy on use of their image library, hence I depend completely on my design skills in Canva 😉 ) As we briefly mentioned in our Big Data article Splunk is one of the many pieces...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 24, 2023 | Networking
No, this MAC address has nothing to do with Apple. MAC stands for Media Access Control and operates at layer 2 of the OSI model. What does look like? A MAC address consists of six pairs of hexadecimal numbers. The format you will see it displayed the most is:...
