How many of you have experienced pipeline queues blocking? Almost everyone. This session will provide an overview of Splunk Indexing pipelines and a deep dive into detecting blocked queues, troubleshooting tips to identify the root cause and how to resolve them.

Speaker(s)
Harendra Rawat, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1570.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

Understanding the intent of a natural language search is a major component of any natural language processing system. Although there are numerous machine learning and deep learning techniques to solve complex problems in natural language processing, such as understanding intent also known as natural language understanding, very few of them discuss the challenges in production. In this session we take you on a journey from development to production of natural language understanding component of Splunk Natural Language Platform. We will discuss several engineering and data science challenges, and also provide holistic approaches to overcome those challenges. Attendees of the session should walk away with a deeper understanding of different state-of-the-art techniques, such as understanding the intent of a natural language search query, that can help them build their own applications in the natural language processing domain.

Speaker(s)
Aungon Nag Radon, Sr. Data Scientist, Splunk
Anand Srinivasabagavathar, Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1716.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Mobile

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

For many organizations, Splunk is considered critical infrastructure. But Splunk itself does not provide any full backup solutions. Several first and third-party options exist, each with their own positives and negatives. Join us as we talk about what options exist today, why they didn’t work for us, and what we’ve built to solve this problem - right from Splunk - using the open source tool Duplicity. Users of all OS’s welcome, but the app is currently only supported for Linux.

Speaker(s)
Steve McMaster, Hurricane Labs

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FNC2051.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

Is managing your growing list of indexes like herding cattle? Is your Master Node struggling against a stampede of buckets? Are you ducking bullets to satisfy data access requirements at the expense of usability or search performance? This session will demonstrate the advanced, role-based data access approach being used by several large Splunk customers. You will learn alternative methods to satisfy complex data access requirements without having to allocate hundreds or thousands of indexes. This method will allow you to focus on usability and search performance as your primary criteria for designing and managing your indexing strategy.

Speaker(s)
Yisroel Bongart, Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk
Jeff Champagne, Director, Global SE Programs, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1081.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Advanced

More than 200,000 military service members return to civilian life each year in the United States alone, with many thousands more around the globe. Many are looking to build on their experiences, leveraging the technical training and skills acquired while working in the service to their country. Thousands more are looking to change direction. Both paths can lead to the Splunk community, where we have provided access to free training for thousands of veterans through our customers, partners, and more. Join us for a discussion with some of our leading partners, including the Wounded Warrior Project, WithYouWithMe Academy, and Npower, about how veterans can navigate the transition to technology careers with help from a growing network of partners, and how Splunk can provide new and exciting career opportunities.

Speaker(s)
Corey Marshall, Director, Splunk
Bertina Ceccarelli, Npower
Bryan Rollins, Warriors to Work Director, Wounded Warrior Project
Adam Renfree, With You With Me

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2241.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

The sooner a support engineer understands your case and has sufficient information, the sooner your case will be resolved. Splunk Support engineers are vey good at what they do, but they can't read minds, and they can't see into your computers. How can you make them understand your issue better and faster? What steps can you take ahead of submitting a support case that will ensure that you understand your issue as well? Attendees will receive some important tips resulting in a faster TTR.

Speaker(s)
cp-regex-guru Petterborg, Splunk Architect, Stage 2 Security

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FNC2259.pdf?podcast=1577146200

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

The 2017 “Splunk Ninja Winner” and 2019 “Commander Award” finalist will tell the story of… Moving from 1 to 100 global users the issues faced and solutions produced! This talk discusses the technical and human challenges when working for a major financial software company Murex. By using 7 examples, the talk will illustrate….1.    Where is my Data! (Growing)2.    Fast Forwarder Deployment (Admin)3.    Data is only ½ the Battle (Growing)4.    A Snapshot in Time (Dev)5.    Different user’s different roles (Admin)6.    Improving Debugging X10 (Dev)7.    Code Versioning (Dev)

Speaker(s)
Robert Lynch, Head of Splunk@Murex, Murex

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1445.pdf?podcast=1577146200

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Intermediate

Deep Learning frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch let you extend Splunk's Machine Learning Toolkit with custom algorithms that provide you with an edge for advanced AI and ML use cases in Security, IT Operations, IoT or for any advanced custom analytics. In this talk you learn about the latest evolution to streamline the usage of TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch with the MLTK Container extension. Integrated Jupyter Notebooks help data scientist to accelerate their custom model development, deployment and operationalization. The MLTK Container can leverage GPUs for parallel computing and accelerate model training for big complex datasets. This session is suitable for all python-minded data scientists and developers who want to tap into deep learning use cases with Splunk.

Speaker(s)
Anthony Tellez, Staff Data Scientist, Splunk
Philipp Drieger, Staff Machine Learning Architect , Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1409.pdf?podcast=1577146200

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, AI/ML

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Advanced

Cryptocurrency ecosystems are highly complex, distributed, and rapidly evolving, rendering many existing financial models ineffective. By aggregating the heterogeneous data streams that are produced by distinct groups within crypto (blockchains, mining pools, exchanges, etc.), we have built a unified analytical platform called Nakamoto Terminal (NTerminal) using Splunk. By leveraging NTerminal, we are creating an adapted agent-based modeling (ABM) system; agents monitor the state of the ecosystem by consuming real time updates from the individual data sources that modulate their state and connectivity. Different heuristic models are called upon to facilitate data transformations and agent interactions. Within this ecosystem, collective agent activity reveals emergent properties and patterns of behavior. With Splunk as the centerpiece, integrated reports, dashboards, or searches allow you to better navigate the ecosystem of interest.

Speaker(s)
Nick Gans, Research and Development Lead, Inca Digital Securities
Zach Finzi, Research & Software Director, Inca Digital Securities

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1408.pdf?podcast=1577146200

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Intermediate

Streaming telemetry is a new approach supported by major networking companies such as Cisco, as well as service providers. It provides better real time data of routing/switching devices without the performance impact that comes with SNMP. Network operators who turn to streaming telemetry often have sophisticated goals in mind and are not simply looking to collect data and throw it onto a graph. Instead, they are looking at advanced use cases where further processing is performed on the data (e.g., analytics or machine learning) and intelligent action is triggered based on this analysis. This presentation. will discuss how to get telemetry data into Splunk to search, analyze, visualize, and create alerts including examples from an existing deployment.

Speaker(s)
Jianning Guo, Solution Architect, Cisco Systems

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1425.pdf?podcast=1577146200

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels