by Kristof Vandenborn | Jul 22, 2023 | Big Data, Splunk
Splunk has two ways of being deployed. One is a standalone box and the other is called a ‘distributed deployment’. What are the differences? In a standalone deployment you will have one server that does all of the work. In a distributed deployment you will...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jul 17, 2023 | Big Data, Splunk
In our last article about Splunk metadata we spoke about the sourcetype field being one of the metadadata fields. In our article about getting data in Splunk we also saw that at a certain moment we had to chose a sourcetype for our data. What we did not do was open...
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...
