In this post, you will find out what Splunk data models and CIM (Common Information Model) are and why they hold that much importance. Splunk is a scalable system that uses any machine data (all IT streaming, machine, and historical data, such as Windows event logs, web server logs, live…

Data retention policies help to manage organizations’ big data. Since the amount of data collected today is tremendous, establishing a retention policy is crucial as ingesting the correct data source. The retention policy is basically how long the organization wants to keep the data. …

As per Splunk Validated Architectures, Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S) is the current best practice recommendation to collect syslog data. This article provides instructions on how to configure custom syslog inputs (also how to filter out the data) to be ingested to Splunk. Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S) is a…