Day 9 is here . Part 1 The first part is easy. We already know how to enumerate pairs from day 8, so all we have to do is that plus calculate the area. So as usual we save the challenge data to a csv, add a header line of "x,y" a the top, upload to splunk as a new lookup, and we can easily upgrade to the full challenge data for part 1: That was easy! Part 2 Now this is another story. I'm just going to document the various ideas and iterations I went through, just because it's

Windows events are a large part of the volume of logs ingested in a lot of splunk deployments. Wouldn't be cool if we could shrink them so they don't eat up so much precious precious license? In this post I'll walk through how I rebuilt Windows Event Logs (WELs) into a compact, Splunk-friendly format, cuting size by up to 60% without breaking field extractions. Key takeaways With a few targeted ingest actions and props/transforms tweaks, you can shrink Windows logs dramatical

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I have been nominated for a 2023 Splunkie Award and I am delighted to be a finalist for the Inventor Award! https://conf.splunk.com/the-s...