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What Are Mappings in Elasticsearch? (Explained Simply)

Elasticsearch mappings turn logs from unstructured text into usable data. In this video, we explain what mappings are, how they define fields like text, number, and date, and why they matter. With the right mappings, Elasticsearch can filter error codes, sort by response time, and group results by browser, region, or version.

Understanding Incident Response vs Incident Remediation

At a high level, incident remediation is a part of the incident response process. An Incident response plan manages the incident lifecycle across planning, detection, investigation, and recovery. Meanwhile, incident remediation focuses on identifying root causes and implementing measures to prevent future occurrences.

Tech Talk - Mastering Data Pipelines Unlocking value with Splunk

On this Tech Talk to learn how Splunk can help you unlock the value of your security and observability data by building an effective data management strategy. Understand how Splunk’s approach to federated data management can help you maximize the value of data. Build effective pipelines using our latest SPL2-powered data processing capabilities to collect, transform and route data based on your business needs. Run effective searches on data in Amazon S3 without having to ingest or index data into Splunk.

Tech Talk - Aligning Observability Costs with Business Value Practical Strategies

Learn how to tackle the challenges of growing telemetry data and optimize your observability model to maximize value while minimizing costs. This session will explore strategies to reduce log ingestion, centralize pipeline management, and gain visibility into metric usage to identify waste.

The business impact of Elasticsearch logsdb index mode and TSDS

The Elasticsearch storage engine team has made significant strides in improving storage efficiency and performance in Elasticsearch 8.19 and 9.1. Now that these changes are available, what impact can they have on your business? And how do you make the most of them?

Tech Talk - Holistic Visibility and Effective Alerting Across IT and OT Assets

On this Tech Talk to learn how to gain complete visibility into all hosts and their potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and unpatched components in a single analytics platform, adding Tenable asset and exposure risk context improves alert prioritization and joint customers use Splunk for Centralized Reporting.