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Somerford Blog Setting up SplunkWeb with Third Party Certificates End-to-End on a Built Environment (Part 1) Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 20/03/2024 Introduction Recently, I was working on a project which included the need to promote the communications in Splunk from using regular unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS from browser to SplunkWeb and also replace […]

Somerford Blog Splunk .conf24: Key Updates & Highlights Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 10/07/2024 Somerford Associates were delighted to attend Splunk. conf24 in Las Vegas in June, soaking in the incredible atmosphere and scenery, enjoying the thumping dance music and, of course, listening to the latest product reveals from our world renowned data analytics partner.

Somerford Blog A Business & Competitive Edge: Cisco + Splunk + AppDynamics Author: Bhuvnesh Yadav Release Date: 13/05/2025 So before we dive into how Splunk and AppDynamics are coming together under Cisco’s umbrella, let me quickly walk you through what these platforms actually do. AppDynamics, which Cisco acquired back in January 2017, is an industry-leading

Somerford Blog How to Filter Events From Two Sources with One Common Field Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 26/02/2024 Introduction Often the power of Splunk can really be shown by correlating data that previously would have been very disparate or difficult to compare together. By leveraging Splunk’s flexible and verbose search language, you can ask

Somerford Blog 10 Ways Observability will Benefit your Organisation & How Does it Differ to Monitoring Author: Paul Winchester Date: 21/09/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube I.T. is changing rapidly. Monolithic software is being broken down and rebuilt using technologies such as containerisation and micro services, and these are increasingly hosted in the Cloud. DevOps approaches to

Somerford Blog How to Troubleshoot Splunk Indexer Blocked Queues Author: Grace Dolby Date: 04/10/2022 SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST Linkedin Twitter Youtube Within the Somerford Support Desk we see many common themes among our customers and the cases that they raise. Recently, we have seen many being caused by blocked queues on Splunk Indexers and

Somerford Blog What is Splunk’s Universal Forwarder? Author: Becca Lambert Release Date: 21/04/2023 SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST The Splunk Universal Forwarder is a streamlined iteration of the Splunk Enterprise software, tailored to facilitate the forwarding of data. Splunk itself serves as a platform, specialising in the exploration, monitoring, and examination of machine-generated data. This

Somerford Blog What Does Splunk Attack Analyzer Do? Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 24/02/2025 In the contemporary digital landscape, malicious actors and adversaries are continuously evolving their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). They relentlessly innovate and devise increasingly sophisticated attacks aimed at circumventing the security measures implemented by legitimate organisations. These attacks can take various