Splunk [Foundations/Platform Track] 2019 .conf Videos w/ Slides

So you saw the new Splunk Dashboards framework and PNG export on the main stage and want to know more? You want to understand what this will mean for your Enterprise, Cloud, ITSI, ES and/or IAI deployments? You've come to the right place. In this session, we'll provide an overview and extended demo of the new dashboarding framework and context export service. We'll cover what's different about this new framework in comparison to both SimpleXML and Glass Tables. We'll also cover the support roadmap for Simple XML and Glass Tables as well as what you need to know in order to migrate. If you're planning to attend any of the other dashboard deep dive sessions, we recommend attending this one first. Speaker(s) Nachi Mistry, Sr. Engineering Manager, Splunk Miranda Luna, Product Management, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1815.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Developer Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Hey mad scientist, why so angry? Learn how Splunk is rethinking experiments in the Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) to make your life easier. Find out how we're changing the experiment workflow to reflect real-world usage of the MLTK, and make it easier for people new to the MLTK to get up and running. Strap on your safety goggles and let's get experimenting! Speaker(s) Gyanendra Rana, Senior Product Manager, Splunk Ryan Oriecuia, Principal Software Developer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1553.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, AI/ML Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Have you ever wondered what Joe meant when he referred to “Wire Data”? Today, you'll see the applicability of wire data in your organization, and you'll be amazed. Solve fraud, cybersecurity, ops, and business challenges, all with one single source of data. Wire data is the information that passes over computer and telecommunications networks to define communications between client and server devices. It is the result of decoding wire and transport protocols containing the bi-directional data payload. We will cover the use of wire data to solve security, IT operations, and business use cases, and see how the Splunk Stream platform is easily integrated into your existing data flows. The Splunk Essentials for Wire Data app from Splunkbase will be used to showcase dozens of examples using wire data to solve common business and technical issues. We will cover how to deploy and configure Splunk Stream in a distributed environment, including a demonstration. Speaker(s) Simon O’Brien, Principal Sales Engineer, Splunk Vinu Alazath, Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1206.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Tired of relying on static threshold-based alerts that don’t seem to provide much value? Do you typically end up finding outliers in your data by staring at lines on your dashboards? We are told machine learning is going make alerts and dashboards smarter, but how? We will help demystify machine learning and provide a practical guide to apply machine learning techniques for numeric outlier detection, and forecasting to make alerts and dashboards smarter and easier to use for actionable results. We will show you the basics of how you can understand your data, get them ready for machine learning, and get the machine to start working for you! You will leave the session beginning to think like a data scientist and knowing how to apply purpose-driven machine learning to your searches in Splunk! Speaker(s) Eurus Kim, Staff ML Architect, Splunk Amir Malekpour, Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1213.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, AI/ML Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Seeking guidance to help create amazing Splunk dashboards? Want to wow your team as well as your execs and become THE dashboard master? Come learn about Splunk's new dashboarding capabilities, and experience rich dashboard examples as well as the art of the possible. We will demo a variety of dashboards, and we’ll share tips and tricks, tutorials and templates to ensure you can build your own. Attend this session and you’ll be on the path to becoming a Splunk dashboard ninja in no time.  Speaker(s) Stephen Luedtke, Sr. Data Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1933.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Paychex’s goal of providing the best user experience for our clients has led to a significant investment in performance testing and monitoring of our applications. Currently all Paychex applications record the execution time for every task and subtask to logs. These are indexed by Splunk, allowing us to identifying areas where changes to code and database queries will have a positive impact on the overall user experience. This presentation will focus on combining this user experience data with client demographic data (such as the number of active employees) and using the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to build predictive models of user experience based on client demographic data. Speaker(s) Ken Tupper, Lead Performance Engineer, Paychex Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1631.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, AI/ML Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Finding anomalies in network data is no easy task, especially when you have terabytes of logs per day to analyze. But have no fear, we’re going to teach you how. In this session we will perform a technical deep dive into how a global content delivery network provider is using Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit to discover anomalies in network traffic. We’ll take you on a data science journey and show you how we tested multiple anomaly detection techniques, overcame challenges, fine-tuned detections, and ultimately arrived at meaningful alerts based on machine learning. Speaker(s) Jim Goodrich, Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1390.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, AI/ML Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Do you wish to modify your incoming data before ingestion? How about using Splunk's real-time search feature more efficiently? Splunk Data Stream Processor (DSP) can help. DSP allows you to analyze, transform and act on your data in real-time before it is indexed by Splunk indexers.Join us in this session to learn more about how you can use DSP as an alerting and action engine and transform your incoming data in real-time! Speaker(s) Dirk Nitschke, Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk Bashar Abdul-Jawad, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2033.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Learn how the T-Mobile Splunk Team uses Splunk Data Stream Processor (DSP) to provide advanced stream manipulation options to its user base. See how DSP is positioned in a large-scale Splunk as a service ecosystem. Speaker(s) Michael Guenther, Senior Advisory Engineer, Splunk Dave Cornette, Enterprise Monitoring Architect, T-Mobile Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1786.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Do you use Kafka but find yourself limited by what Kafka allows you to do with your data? Would you like to enrich, aggregate, and alert on your data as it moves through Kafka, but can’t figure out how? You can overcome these obstacles by integrating Kafka with the Splunk Data Stream Processor. The Splunk DSP is a data streaming platform that helps you transform and enrich your data. With DSP you can make data-driven decisions in real time as data is ingested. DSP also provides simple ways to build data pipelines, and gives you full control and visibility into your data as it flows through the platform. Apache Kafka is now widely adopted as a foundational element for data pipelines. DSP integrates seamlessly with Kafka clusters, and allows data to be read from Kafka, processed in highly scalable ways, and then written back to Kafka. Join us and see how to use DSP as a streaming engine for Kafka clusters. Speaker(s) Thor Taylor, Director of Product Management, Splunk Adam Lamar, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1987.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Beginner

How about having an immersive data experience on your mobile device via augmented reality? Think about being in a data center where you just need to scan the QR code/NFC tag on your stacked devices to know the critical device metrics on your mobile. This session will show you how Splunk AR can be used to visualize the dashboard data that users create on the Splunk platform. Visit this session and you will learn how to create apps, dashboards and immersively reflect the data on your mobile using Splunk AR.  Speaker(s) Sulabh Agarwal, Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1486.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

This session will be all about exciting Foundations/Platform related content that we'll announce .conf19. We can't tell you about it now, but trust us — it's awesome.  Speaker(s) Alex James, Sr. Principal Architect, Splunk Andrew Peters, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1740.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

This session will detail new innovations and features included in the .conf19 release of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise. This is one of the most well-attended .conf19 sessions. Be sure to add it to your agenda. Speaker(s) Sundeep Gupta, Director, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Skip Bacon, VP, Enterprise Products, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2516.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

This session will be all about exciting Foundations/Platform-related content that we'll announce at .conf19. We can't tell you about it now, but trust us — it's awesome. Speaker(s) Geoffrey hendrey, Sr Principal Engineer, splunk Aditi Nath, Software Development Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1735.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Developer Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

As customers add more and more data to Splunk, indexer clusters with large volumes of indexers, indexes, and buckets are becoming commonplace. In Splunk labs we run intensive tests to explore the boundaries of the largest indexer clusters. This session will discuss the lifecycle of a Splunk bucket, why it is a key metric in indexer scalability, and which indicators and tunables to monitor in a very large cluster. We'll also share how we do performance testing, the latest performance results, and best practices for scaling your Splunk Enterprise cluster to 20 million unique buckets and beyond. Speaker(s) Cher-Hung Chang, Principle Software Engineer, Splunk Brent Davis, Principal Performance Engineer, Splunk Justin Lin, Performance Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1635.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Want to use your custom model with the data already in Splunk? Want to contribute to an open library for Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) algorithms? Want to use your favorite Machine Learning library? This session will help you to create custom algorithms and leverage the power of any ML algorithm you have ever wanted to use for your application. Traverse the entire process from building a custom algorithm, fitting the model to your data, testing your application, to contributing to the MLTK Algorithms library on Github. Speaker(s) Karthika Krishnan, Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Splunk Ankit Bhagat, Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1540.pdf?podcast=1577146203 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Come learn some lesser known search commands! Amaze your co-workers, dazzle employers, learn something new! We will cover various commands that you might know about, but have never tried! Speaker(s) Kyle Smith, Integration Developer, Aplura, LLC Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1061.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

“There’s always a tension between one’s individual self—one’s million data points—and the statistical breakdown of your existence. It’s the awareness of this tension that I navigate each day.” I wrote this in response to the reveal that black employee representation across Splunk’s U.S. offices was only 3%. #RepresentationMatters and having a “seat at the table” are critical frameworks and tactics to improve diversity, and this panel discussion brings together a diverse cross-section of Splunkers to further explore these topics. Specifically, panel participants will use there statistical data points (e.g., 3%) as a foil to reflect on how they’ve leveraged their individual motivations to push for and create change within their particular role. We intend for the audience to leave stirred by the ideas this conversation will open up, and moved to ask themselves what they can do to create change or elevate others who’ve been underrepresented in their workplace. Speaker(s) Keegan Dubbs, Senior Product Manager, Splunk Kara Gillis, Director of Product Management, Splunk Christopher Russell, Product Marketing Manager, Splunk Marvin Green, Principal Product Manager, Mobile, Splunk Alyssa Niles, Product Marketing Manager, Splunk Vidhi Agrawal, Principal Product Manager, Core products portfolio, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND1745.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Instana CEO Mirko Novakovic explores microservices applications and the performance management challenges created by their complexity. Unique microservice architectures, operational and deployment needs create a large management gap. With so many moving pieces in addition to highly complex architectures, having the raw data won’t meet the challenge. There’s just too many pieces, too many dependencies and too much data for humans (even teams) to understand. New management tools are needed that translate data into information. Otherwise, each stakeholder must fend for themselves even though the ephemeral application architecture makes it impossible to find bottlenecks. It’s like trying to get directions in a foreign city where nobody speaks your language - every question and answer gets lost in translation. Mirko examines distributed microservice applications, how their complexity creates management problems, and what APM tools should do to automatically meet those challenges and deliver high performing applications. Speaker(s) Mirko Novakovic, Instana Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FNS2822.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Track: Foundations/Platform Level:

Anomaly Detection, Predictive Analytics, and Clustering — oh my! Splunk customers want answers from their data, and machine learning is here to help. This session will help demystify the machine learning process, show how common machine learning themes are used for different outcomes at customers around the world, and give you next steps for achieving success at home by implementing machine learning! We aren’t talking about just science projects. We'll be giving examples and public details about Splunk’s Machine Learning Advisory successes over the years. Expect to leave with tangible examples you can implement back in the real world - if you can Escape from Vegas! Speaker(s) Iman Makaremi, Principal Product Manager – Machine Learning and AI, Splunk Harsh Keswani, Product Manager: Machine Learning, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1470.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, AI/ML Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Imagine improving the speed of your searches over 500k times faster and breathe new life into your Splunk environment without more hardware investment.  Learn how to use both time and segmentation with fast subsearches to quickly filter events for fast, advanced data correlation.  Based on the .conf17 talk “Fields, Indexed Tokens, And You" Speaker(s) Andrew Landen, Sr Splunk Developer, Chevron Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1407.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Advanced

Blockchain scalability is one of the main barriers to adoption of this revolutionary new technology. Finance, supply chain, and e-commerce blockchain deployments often have peak throughputs that far exceed their baseline. For example, when tickets for a popular concert go on sale, the peak transaction throughput will result in unacceptable latency for the users. Samsung SDS Accelerator is a layer 2 scaling solution for Hyperledger Fabric that enables up to 10x transaction throughput during this burst of activity. Using Splunk MLTK, we’re able to detect and react to these bursts of activity without compromising the security guarantees of the underlying blockchain. Speaker(s) Jeff Wu, Senior Product Manager, Blockchain, Splunk Ted Kim, Samsung SDS Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2069.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, AI/ML Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Splunk’s metric index has changed a lot since we launched it back in Splunk Enterprise 7.0. In this latest iteration, we have upgraded our data model and metric index to natively ingest and store multiple metrics in a single event to further reduce its storage footprint and lower total cost of ownership. This session with provide a deep-dive into our latest metric index layout, its evolution since introduction in Splunk Enterprise 7.0, and how it varies from a log index storage layout. Speaker(s) Murugan Kandaswamy, Senior software engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2268.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Advanced

Curious about how to efficiently onboard and analyze metric data in Splunk? This talk will teach you the basic design and best practices for Splunk's Metric Indexes. Since they were introduced two years ago, Splunk's metric capabilities have quickly evolved. Now there is support for rollups, richer logs-to-metrics conversion capabilities, and a more efficient data representation formats. We also will discuss planned future enhancements and how you may best prepare for them today. Speaker(s) Steve Zhang, Chief Scientist, Splunk ILAM Siva, Product Management, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1266.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Beginner

Why is the queue for the women’s restroom always longer than the men’s at a concert or theater? Data is fundamental to the modern world. From business decisions to economic development and public policy, we rely on data to allocate resources and make critical decisions. However, because so much of the data fails to take into account bias, such as gender and race, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. This results in missed economic opportunities and tremendous costs in time, in money and, in some cases, lives. In this session we will explore examples of data bias based on studies that are eye-opening, informative, and will change the way you look at the world. We will look at the pitfalls that lead to poor data-driven decisions, and their outcomes. We also will explore the steps you can take to inform your own data driven decisions. And, yes, we will answer the question, “Why is the women’s queue is longer than the men’s?” Speaker(s) Dipock Das, Senior Director, Product Management, Incubation, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND1466.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

In this session, we’ll explore how companies can adapt to multi-cloud environments using Google Cloud Anthos and Splunk Enterprise to maintain end-to-end visibility into these hybrid workloads. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) On-Prem part of Anthos brings the efficiency, speed, and scale of cloud to manage Kubernetes clusters in your datacenter. Combined with Splunk Connect for Kubernetes, we’ll show you how you get a single pane of glass to manage, monitor & secure your Kubernetes clusters across your organization. We’ll also do a deep dive on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security controls and how to export security findings from Cloud Security Command Center and cloud asset changes from Cloud Asset Inventory all into Splunk Enterprise for further forensic analysis, to accelerate incident resolution and ensure compliance. Speaker(s) Alex Cain, Sr. Product Manager | Getting Data In, Splunk Nic Stone, Solutions Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2132.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Do you want to be an ally but don't know where or how to start? Diversity and inclusion in technology workplaces is not a women’s issue, or an issue relevant only to other underrepresented groups. Diversity and inclusion are business issues, and they are human issues. We know that businesses profit from the many benefits that diverse perspectives bring to innovation and company competitiveness. In this panel discussion, we aim to facilitate a conversation to better understand the barriers to advocacy, to promote best-practices for effective advocacy, and to enable sharing of first-hand experiences of successful advocacy. Speaker(s) Ammar Maraqa, SVP Strategy and Corp Dev, Splunk Asmita Puri, Sr. Software Engineer, Splunk Marvin Green, Principal Product Manager, Mobile, Splunk Josh Klahr, VP of Product Management, Splunk Robin Barre, Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk Katrina Reid, VP Technical Program Management, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND1829.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Developer Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Splunk is known as an excellent platform for exploring machine-generated data. We'll explore how the platform can be used on open datasets to search for insight on real world issues such as election participation, public health, and other topics. Takeaways will include considerations for data acquisition and ingest, domain expertise, and successes and challenges from the perspective of a civic-minded individual. Lets see how far Splunk can take us! Speaker(s) Phil Meyerson, Security Analyst, EFSI @NASA Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1096.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Ever wanted to create a seamless sign-on experience for your Splunk users, irrespective of when, where, who, or how many? If so come and listen to how Atlassian, the world leader in software collaboration tools, did just that. Atlassian’s in-house Splunk Enterprise cluster runs on Amazon Web Services and we wanted to take advantage of the latest and greatest authentication features released for the Application Load Balancer to provide that much-sought-after, seamless SSO experience for all our Splunk users. Join us as we share the technical wrangling required to make this magic happen and expand on how we leveraged the Splunk scripted authentication mechanism to introduce support for JSON web toke- based authentication. The cherry on top will be the chance to discover some of the unexpected things we learned along the way, because no tale is complete without a war story and everyone loves a great war story! Speaker(s) Sam Wilson, Senior Systems Engineer, Atlassian Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1590.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Advanced

Who says you can’t have it all? In today’s workplace, where the competition for talent is fierce, offering a true work/life balance is the key to keeping the best and the brightest as part of your organization. Based on more than 15 years of experiences across Fortune 500 companies and startups in the technology industry, Pam Sotnick and Katy Mann have been trailblazers in job-sharing and have shown how it works; not just for employees but also for organizations. Striking the right balance helps to retain talented women or men who need to reduce the number of hours devoted to their work life due to family responsibilities or other considerations. Job-sharing also can help to retain skilled workers who might otherwise choose to retire early or move to another organization. Come learn how job-sharing can work for your organization or how to make it work for you as an individual. Speaker(s) Katy Mann, Director, National Security Programs, Splunk Pamela Sotnick, Program Manager, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND2245.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Many government agencies and for-profit companies require that you run Splunk on a network disconnected from the outside Internet. This presents many challenges, including how to cross air gaps and one-way transfers, how to operate indexers in an air-gapped environment, and how to automate backwards. This session will cover lessons learned from a variety of air-gapped deployments. Speaker(s) Steve Schohn, Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1190.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Phantom Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Copper River ES, a strategic partner for Splunk public sector, is working with a large federal agency that has restructured their NOC and SOC organizations into a single unified entity as part of operational optimization.  The agency is responsible for protecting IP and other assets totaling $4.3 trillion as part of safeguarding the nation’s food supply chain.   The goal was to enhance the ability to handle problem escalations quickly and improve communications between teams. They are currently ingesting more than 3TB daily across 65 data sources where Splunk is leveraged as an integrated data platform and framework service to act as a nerve center for the combined NOC and SOC teams. Implementation has resulted in dramatically reducing MTTD to an average of less than 30 min compared to previous times of up to 12 hours, MTTR times from 16 hours to often less than 1 with overall outage times having now been reduced by about 68%. From a security perspective, it is used to identify data exfiltration and insider threats, as well as for security operations and compliance.  Increasing visibility into all aspects of system operations and troubleshooting efforts is now supported through a series of custom Splunk App’s, glass tables, reports and alerts with operational guides and training to best leverage the capabilities Splunk has generated. Speaker(s) Sandy Voellinger, Copper River Enterprise Services Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1921.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk User Behavior Analytics Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) allowed Paychex to quickly eliminate over 18,000 hours of manual effort annually with only the first workflow, which was developed from start to finish in one month. Does your company have manual processes that could easily be automated through RPA efforts? If so, you could be saving thousands of hours and upwards of millions of dollars. In this session, we will show you how you can use RPA to deliver ROI and business value to your business units and executive-level management, and how Splunk can help monitor robot and workflow health and errors in real-time to developers. Speaker(s) Brian Dudiak, Manager, RPA Program, Paychex Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1045.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Women are underrepresented across all levels of the technology industry. Find out how these four female leaders advanced their careers to lead the industry. Join us for an in-depth discussion about female diversity and the importance of including women in leadership from those who've made it to the top. Speaker(s) Suzanne McGovern, Chief Diversity Officer & Head of Talent, Splunk Jane Hite-Syed, NGS CIO, National Government Services Patty Morrison, Splunk Board Member, Splunk Monika Panpaliya, Senior Director, Digital Common Services, Boeing Carol Jones, CIO, Sandia National Laboratories Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND1268.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Let's face it, sometimes you don't know what you don't know. With vast amounts of cloud data coming in at cloud-speed, it can be difficult to see through the noise and know what to look for. Are malicious adversaries attempting to comprise the environment? Is my environment under- or over-provisioned? Do I have an insider possibly exfiltrating company data? Are employees actually using the services? What is all of this costing per service, department, business unit? Don't worry, we will help you figure all this out in a prescriptive manner by showcasing these and other use cases. Then, we will show you the "how" by exposing the searches, the data needed, and showing you how to onboard that data. You will walk away with use cases that can be implemented immediately in your own environment. Speaker(s) Jason Conger, Solution Architect, Splunk Ry Lait, Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1328.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Data is growing exponentially; however IT budgets are not.  Growth in internal use cases and additional data sources can put organizations under intense pressure to manage spiraling costs. The good news is that help is on the way. We will show how to size and configure Splunk SmartStore to yield significant cost savings, for both current and future data growth. In addition, learn how to configure the Splunk deployment for optimal search performance. Spare a few minutes of your time at .conf19 and see it yield big returns for your organization. Speaker(s) Bharath Aleti, Director, Product Management, Splunk Jon Rust, Splunk Architect, ADP Jane Jokl, Offering Manager, IBM Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1435.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

Dive into the inner workings of SmartStore. In this talk we'll go over how SmartStore works internally with ties to Indexer Clustering, and what decisions the CacheManager makes, e.g., when do we upload/download from the remote storage, etc. We'll also go over the performance numbers that we've seen! Speaker(s) Da Xu, Senior Engineering Manager, Splunk Bill Ern, Splunk Product Owner, Lockheed Martin Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2168.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

"I'm completely satisfied with my search speed and there is nothing to improve" said no one, ever. The majority of internet users expect websites to load within two seconds. Why should Splunk dashboards and the underlying searches be any different? No one should be satisfied by searches that take minutes to complete. In this talk, we'll cover all the different strategies to take slow searches and speed them up. This is an updated talk from .conf2017. Speaker(s) Satoshi Kawasaki, Splunk for Good Ninja, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2188.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Beginner

Have you ever wondered how people with disabilities use Splunk ? Ever wondered what it would be like to perform searches in Splunk using a screen reader or a speech recognition application ? Then come to this session to learn about the enhancements made to the Splunk platform that makes it easy to use with assistive technology tools. We will delve into the experience of performing investigation in Splunk using a screen reader and discuss the enhancements made to the platform to make this a superior experience. You will learn about the work we are doing at Splunk to address compliance to the WCAG, Section 508, and EN 301 549 accessibility standards. Finally you will hear how our customers are using Splunk with assistive technology tools to accomplish their day-to-day work. Speaker(s) Kumar Varun, Sr. Product Manager, Splunk Sean Kugler, Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1986.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Good for all skill levels

You already know Splunk is amazing, but now you have to prove this to someone in your organization before you get the keys to your Splunky Supercar. Good news - we've got a solution that gets your data - not fake data - into Splunk Cloud, and makes it immediately accessible, useable and valuable to everyone in your organization. You'll be able to kick-the-tires on your new data analytics engine for 30 days at no cost. Attend this session to learn more.... Let me introduce you to the Autobahn, Splunk-style. Speaker(s) Ken Tallman, Sr Sales Engineer, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1452.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Beginner

This session will cover how to overcome any missing insights in services and processes in Splunk Cloud. You'll learn how to develop alerts and dashboards to show performance and infrastructure health, and an API framework to retrieve data from the cloud infrastructure. We also will show you how to automate retrieval of all entry points to the Splunk on-premises infrastructure, and monitor connections to the intermediate forwarders, deployment servers, HEC and DBX servers, and syslog. In addition, we will address the lack of standardization principles for your on-premises Splunk Infrastructure, how to create gold standard alerts and dashboards, and how to create scripted inputs to gather system information. Finally, we will show you how to address the lack of a centralized view for managing your Splunk deployment server infrastructure, and how to automate the retrieval of deployment clients, server classes, and TA’s from deployment servers and feed the output to Splunk Cloud. Speaker(s) Ray Mateo, Solutions Engineer, Liberty Mutual Michael Anderson, Senior Software Engineer, Liberty IT Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1995.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Intermediate

Are you considering moving to Splunk Cloud? This session will show you the benefits of migrating to Splunk Cloud and letting Splunk do all the heavy lifting so you can focus on getting value from your data. We also will go into what makes the Splunk Cloud service unique. Speaker(s) Kyle Hourihan, Principal Cloud Architect, Splunk Kam Amir, Cloud Architect, Splunk Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1647.pdf?podcast=1577146202 Product: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Track: Foundations/Platform Level: Beginner