Browsing Splunk buckets on a S3 bucket

As a Splunk admin managing the storage for the Splunk deployment, it is not uncommon to browse the index directories on the Splunk indexers either to gather the total storage usage across hot/warm and cold tiers or to perform backup or restore activities.  In the traditional Splunk Enterprise deployment with direct attached storage or an …

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Kubernetes cluster deployment using Kubespray

Introduction Containers technology has become the most essential component of the “as a service” offering on the cloud or on-premises.  There are numerous blogs posts that covers the benefits of containers technology and especially Kubernetes.  Hence, I wouldn’t spend time preaching to the choir rather walk you through on how to quickly setup Kubernetes on-premises. …

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Efficient Splunk Integration with Pure Storage Appliances

At Pure Storage, most of our Splunk customers who chose FlashArrays and/or FlashBlades to host their critical applications also chose Splunk as their preferred choice for monitoring. The monitoring platform allows Organizations for a proactive response, supports their Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), improves their Operations, and helps in issue identification and troubleshooting.  For …

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Splunk SmartStore on FlashBlade

The long-awaited whitepaper, Splunk SmartStore on FlashBlade is finally here, right on time before the Splunk Conference that starts on Monday, Oct 21st, 2019 and can be found at this link. Thanks to Splunk for listening to their customers’ request to reduce the Splunk storage usage by disaggregating the storage from compute which not only …

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