Welcome to Splunk Community Dashboard Challenge! This is your chance to showcase your skills in creating visually stunning and unique dashboards using Splunk. Whether you are a Splunk expert or just getting started, we would love for you to participate and unleash your creativity! Read on for the details!

This month we’re focusing on a new feedback initiative. We want to hear from you what you’d like to see on Lantern, and we’ve got swag to give away at .Conf for your ideas! As usual, we’re also sharing the full list of articles published over the past month. Read on to find out more!

Stay ahead of the curve and in the know with our comprehensive list of upcoming Tech Talks, Community Office Hours, and webinars. From insightful discussions to hands-on workshops, there’s something for everyone eager to dive deeper and learn. Don’t miss out — mark your calendars now!

With our highly anticipated annual conference, .conf, comes the fez-wearers you can trust! The SplunkTrust, as well as our newly inducted MVP members, will gladly greet you and answer your technical and logistical questions at .conf in Las Vegas! Read on for more!

Buckle up, Buttercup! Learnings paths for .conf24, Splunk's annual user conference, are now available! Personalize your conference experience and make the most of all that .conf has to offer. 

Splunk Community! Over the past few months, we’ve had a lot going on in the world of Splunk Application Performance Monitoring that we wanted to share. Learn about three new product features - SLO's! Heatmaps! Integrated Trace Views! - and access the on-demand recordings and slide decks from our two recent Community Office Hours. 

Looking for strategic cloud migration insights? Discover how top enterprises are boosting efficiency and scaling business with their move to Splunk Cloud Platform in this latest IDC report.

.conf24 is taking place at The Venetian in Las Vegas from June 11 - 14. Learn about the various learning tracks and register to join us today!

This webinar blog explores the transformative impact of AI and ML on observability within IT environments, demonstrating the benefits through various use cases and highlighting the substantial return on investment for organizations that adopt these practices.

We are beyond thrilled to announce our newest group of SplunkTrust members! The goal of the SplunkTrust™ program is not to recognize users in the room who know the most about Splunk. Rather, the SplunkTrust program was created to acknowledge and recognize those who go above and beyond to help their fellow Splunk practitioners and who have truly helped shape this wonderful, vibrant community.

We are excited to announce the 2024 cohort of the Splunk MVP program. Splunk MVPs are passionate members of the Splunk community that have shown consistent participation in at least one area of our community programs. Read on for the list wonderful community members who make up our MVP group this year!

The Splunk Community is place to connect, learn, give back, and have fun! It features Splunk enthusiasts from all kinds of backgrounds, working at just about every kind of organization, and working in a variety of roles and functions. If you're landed here, you belong here. And we welcome you!

Insights into how the Splunk Growth Engineering  team uses  Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to proactively identify and solve issues, and they demonstrate the capabilities of these tools through a live demo, highlighting the benefits of integrating front-end and back-end monitoring for comprehensive observability.

In March, Splunk Community Office Hours spotlighted our fabulous Splunk Threat Research Team for the first time. This team of security content experts is dedicated to developing out-of-the-box detections to provide comprehensive visibility, empower accurate detection with contextual insights, and enhance operational efficiency. Read on for the details and recordings!

Stay ahead of the curve and in the know with our comprehensive list of upcoming Tech Talks, Community Office Hours, and Webinars. From insightful discussions to hands-on workshops, there’s something for everyone eager to dive deeper and learn. Don’t miss out — mark your calendars now!

This month we’re highlighting a brand new set of content on Lantern. Splunk Outcome Paths show you how to achieve common goals that many Splunk customers are looking for in order to run an efficient, performant Splunk implementation. As usual, we’re also sharing the full list of articles published over the past month. Read on to find out more.

Preview real-time critical application services, and infrastructure hosts, and trace directly in your Splunk Cloud’s Search and Reporting interface with “Related Content” 

It’s been a big news month for Splunk Lantern! Along with celebrating the publication of our 1000th article, we’ve found out that we are up for not just one, but three awards from two different awards providers! We’re thrilled that this reflects how helpful Lantern has become to so many customers, Splunkers and partners, and also shows the significance of the contributions from the expert authors who share their knowledge on Lantern.

Today we are announcing that Splunk is officially part of Cisco. Read on for the details!

Learn how easily you can extend logs from Splunk Cloud Platform or Splunk Enterprise into Splunk Observability Cloud, a solution purposefully built for hybrid troubleshooting. 

This month we’re sharing all the details of a brand new Splunkbase app which helps you discover use cases in Lantern’s Use Case Explorer for the Splunk Platform. We’re also highlighting a batch of new Splunk Edge Processor articles that help new users learn how it works, and help more experienced users get even more value from it. As usual, we’ve also got links to every new article that we published over the month of February. Read on to find out more!

Happy International Women’s Day to all the amazing women across the globe who are working with Splunk to build a more resilient digital world!

It's that time again, folks! That's right, the application/nomination period for the 2024 SplunkTrust is officially open. Click here to APPLY to join the SplunkTrust or NOMINATE a fellow Splunk practitioner! The application/nomination period will remain open through 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.

This month we’re featuring our annual rundown of the Lantern articles that are getting the most views, as well as sharing some interesting site metrics with you from our past financial year. We’ve also published new use cases, product tips, and more! If you want to jump straight to our new articles, scroll to the bottom to find them.

February is Black History Month in the United States, and Splunk's Black Employees Achieve More (BEAMS) employee resource group is shining a light on two great organizations that are creating change in BIPOC communities by nurturing our next generation of leaders. Read on to learn more about these two great organizations!

Splunk Edge Processor provides you with new abilities to filter, mask, and otherwise transform your data, before routing it to supported destinations. Check out this list of common use cases that Splunk Edge Processor can address to help you build Security and Observability resilience!

It is our immense pleasure to introduce you to your shiny new Community homepage! The homepage has been updated and redesigned to better reflect the variety of community programs and platforms available and help both new and seasoned Splunk practitioners more easily find content relevant to them. Read on for more details about these changes!

We’ve got some exciting new changes to the Community site that we’ll be implementing over the next couple of days. Site functionality may be impacted for a short time, starting at 8 AM PT on 1/31/24. Thank you for your patience and understanding, and we can’t wait to share more soon! Questions or comments about this upcoming change? Drop ‘em below!