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Category: technical
a poor user’s guide to accelerating data models in splunk
Data Models are one of the major underpinnings of Splunk’s power and flexibility. They’re the only way to benefit from the powerful pivot command, for example. They underlie Splunk Enterprise Security (probably the biggest “non-core” use of Splunk amongst all their customers). Key to achieving peak performance from Splunk Data Models, though, is that they…
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chelsea troy – designing a course
Via the rands-leadership Slack (in the #i-wrote-something channel), I found an article written on ChealseaTroy.com that was [the last?] in her series on course design. While I found part 9 interesting, I was bummed there were no internal links to the other parts of the series (at least to previous parts (even if there may…
comparing unique anagrams?
How useful would determining similarity of words by their unique anagrams be? For example: “ROBERT” uniquely anagrams to “BEORT”; “BOBBY” and “BOOBY” both uniquely anagram to “BOY”. Is there already a comparison algorithm that uses something like this? What potentially “interesting” discoveries might be made about vocabularical choices if you analyzed text corpora with this…
splunk: match a field’s value in another field
Had a Splunk use-case present itself today on needing to determine if the value of a field was found in another – specifically, it’s about deciding if a lookup table’s category name for a network endpoint is “the same” as the dest_category assigned by a Forescout CounterACT appliance. We have “customer validated” (and we all…
how-to timechart [possibly] better than timechart in splunk
I recently had cause to do an extensive trellised timechart for a dashboard at $CUSTOMER in Splunk. They have a couple hundred locations reporting networked devices. I needed to report on how many devices they’ve reported every day over the last 90 days (I would have liked to go back further…but retention is only 90…
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dorss
After years of thinking about it, I finally got around to it. I’ve rewritten my RSS feed driven website https://datente.com to run on Python from PHP. I’m sure there is much room for improvement in the approach – and would appreciate any constructive feedback you may have. Here’s the GitHub repo: https://github.com/volcimaster/dorss.