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2019

9/23/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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September meeting! Due to conflicts, this meeting is on Sep 23. We will meet in Towson, and I’ll practice my .conf talk (Lesser Known) ! Also food and drinks...

8/19/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! We will meet in the Albert Einstein Classroom, HCLS Savage Branch, 9525 Durness Lane, Laurel MD 20723. Please RSVP, so we can get accurate count. T...

7/15/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! We will meet in the Patapsco meeting room 9421 Frederick Rd Ellicott City MD 21042 Miller branch. Please RSVP, so we can get accurate count.

5/20/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! We will meet in the Warfield Meeting Room HCLS Central Branch, 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia MD 21044. Please RSVP, so we can get accurate co...

4/15/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! We will meet in the Mosaic Conference Room (Front) HCLS Central Branch, 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia MD 21044. Please RSVP, so we can get ac...

3/18/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! We will meet in the Carl Sagan Meeting Room, HCLS Savage Branch, 9525 Durness Lane, Laurel MD 20723. Please RSVP, so we can get accurate count. Tha...

2/25/2019 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! We will meet in the da Vinci Meeting Room, HCLS Savage Branch, 9525 Durness Lane, Laurel MD 20723. Please RSVP, so we can get accurate count. Thanks!

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2018

12/10/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We are meeting for a holiday event! Bring some friends to share the glory of Splunk! Location: Union Jacks, 10400 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD 21044 Da...

Splunk Application Development

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Aplura knows Splunk apps and Splunk app development. We’ve developed many for clients, the community, and ourselves. We understand the complexity of Splunk a...

10/15/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We will be meeting at Skyline Technology Solutions, 6956-F Aviation Blvd, Glen Burnie, MD 21061, and will be having a .conf deconstruction!

9/24/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Meeting Soon! We are meeting on the fourth Monday this month, due to a scheduling conflict, and lack of notice. I will present my new talk, as a teaser/pract...

8/20/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We are meeting again! Due to scheduling conflicts, neither Dave nor myself will be able to attend. This month will be lead by Tom Kreiner.

7/19/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Meeting in July! Special Meeting! We will be meeting in DC at the SplunkLive event! TIMES AND LOCATIONS ARE CHANGED FOR THIS MONTH

6/18/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Another meeting! We will be meeting at the da Vinci Meeting Room, HCLS Savage Branch, 9525 Durness Lane, Laurel MD 20723 . 6-8PM! Please RSVP!

5/21/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We shall meet again! Back to the Aplura Offices! 205 E Joppa Rd, Towson, MD, 21286. Suite 109, to the right of the main entrance!

4/16/2018 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We will have Ryan Faircloth of Splunk giving a talk on “Getting Good Data”, and how to onboard data like Splunk Professional Services!

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2017

12/11/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Hi There! We will be having a December social in Columbia! There won’t be a presentation, just food, drinks, and Splunk social! Looking forward to see you th...

11/20/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We are going to welcome Ted Skinner of Splunk to our Usergroup! He will be hosting a “Search Party”, so make sure you bring your laptops for some interactive...

Success with rsyslog

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For a while now, I’ve been hearing complaints about rsyslog’s configuration format. syslogd style configuration syntax has a reputation for being difficult t...

9/18/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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The talk will be “Lesser Known Search Commands” given by Kyle Smith! This will be a practice run of his popular talk for this year’s .conf2017 event. So if y...

8/21/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI THERE! The next usergroup will be in August, on the 21st! Solar Eclipse day! We will meet in the Patapsco Room at Howard County Library System Miller Bran...

Scripted Rebuild of Corrupt Splunk Buckets

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Throughout my Splunk adventures, I’ve run into various situations where I’ve had to rescue data for one reason or another. Recently, I had a situation that r...

6/19/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Windows Event Logs are something found in almost every Splunk deployment. This presentation goes through best practices for their collection, reducing their ...

3/20/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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This meeting will be sponsored by TekSystems at their location! More details to follow! Shawn Dian, a Security Engineer Consultant for Leidos, will be joinin...

2/20/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Hello! Again we shall meet and discuss Splunk! We will meet again at Union Jack’s in Columbia !! I think this month we will do a not-so-intensive presentatio...

Aplura sponsors CALUG

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Aplura is pleased to announce that we now sponsor the Columbia Area Linux Users Group(CALUG) and this note was posted to the group’s mailing list.

1/23/2017 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Hello! After the success of our last meeting in December, we will meet again at Union Jacks in Columbia! Agenda TBD, but food/drinks to start, then presentat...

Metadata, the Constitution, and You

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Having recently completed my second excursion into the wonderment that is Shmoocon, I’ve come away with a slightly perplexing quandary. I attended a talk tit...

Bringing an Intern to ShmooCon

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Hacking. Lock picking. Cracking code. The buzzwords found in Hollywood films were actually happening at Shmoocon. This hacking convention brought a crowd wit...

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2016

12/19/2016 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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So for this month’s meeting I was hoping to be able to get a rather strong showing of users. The concept is for an “After Action Review”, meaning, let’s disc...

Create Better Correlation Searches

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Splunk Enterprise Security comes with 60 correlation searches. Depending on your data, some of these searches are a little noisy and create too many Notable ...

Community, Splunk, and why it matters

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Forget about the sales, the vendors, the swag, and the keynotes. After all, every conference seems to have those items in abundant supply, whether or not you...

Diving into Email Headers

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I’ve been meaning to revisit something I spend a good deal of time on in a past life. Email headers can be a valuable source of intelligence when combating a...

Splunk User Groups

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User groups are an integral part of the Splunk community. User groups are a place for regionally located users, customers, partners, and the occasional Splun...

10/17/2016 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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HI! We are meeting again! This time we will be at the Howard County Library - Miller Branch - Avalon room! Please note the TIME CHANGE! Due to scheduling con...

Eyes Wide Open, Splunk University

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Here I am, going to my 2nd .conf. It’s at Disney. They say it’s a ‘Magical Place.’ I’ll test that theory. Woe is me, before the magic comes the University. C...

.conf2016 top 3 talks

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My criteria for selecting Splunk talks fall under two categories: Security and Optimization / Performance. You’ll see this reflected in my choices below.

Splunk, Disney, and You

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Splunk .conf 2016 held at Walt Disney World is in the books, and it was a great week! I was fortunate enough to be able to bring my family along this year, s...

The Magic Of Disney AND Splunk .Conf 2016

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Another Splunk .conf has come and gone. It was a great week filled with fun, family, and learning. The road construction orange “Aplura Family Reunion” shirt...

Aplura is at Splunk .conf2016!

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Aplura is excited to once again send a majority of our staff to Splunk .conf 2016, a great networking and education experience. This year we are contributing...

Splunk Data Onboarding Cheatsheet

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Even the biggest, baddest Splunk infrastructure is useless without data. But, the way that you bring that data into your Splunk instance can be key to keepin...

9/19/2016 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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Yes! We are meeting again! After much procrastiation, I have scheduled the user group for September ! No agenda yet, but I’ll work on it :D

8/19/2016 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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This month, after learning new things for 7 months, we will be meeting at World of Beer in Towson for a social event. Starting at 5 PM, we will have Appetize...

6/6/2016 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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We are meeting again! I’m putting this one out early to allow for schedule up dates. It is at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library System! Avalon R...

2/22/2016 Baltimore Splunk User Group

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=== UPDATE === 2/3 - I’ve relocated and rescheduled our meeting! Prepare for the first meeting on 2/22 (2/15 is a holiday - Library was closed :D) ! Please c...

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