Splunk Tutorial: KV Store Troubleshooting Adventures

| | Infosec Blog
Introduction One of my least favorite features in Splunk is KV Store - mainly, because whenever I have to deal with it as a Splunk administrator, it’s broken in some horrible new way that I need to figure out. The goal of this post is to capture one of these ... Read More

SPL Tricks: Dealing with Nested Name-Value Pairs in JSON

| | Infosec Blog, Splunk
JSON is a fantastic logging format and Splunk has built in support for it. However, when dealing with JSON logs, there’s a certain field structure that can be a little tricky to manage: The issue here is that Splunk will extract these fields as `name=foo` and `value=bar` by default. I’ve ... Read More