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Before you can search, analyze, or visualize anything in Elasticsearch, you need data ingestion. In this quick guide, we explain how data moves from raw logs, metrics, or JSON into an index using tools like Logstash, Beats, or language clients. Learn why consistency matters more than perfection and how once data is ingested, it’s ready for search, analysis, and insight.

Unlock the power of the Splunk AI Assistant for SPL in your enterprise environment! In this quick tutorial, we'll walk you through the entire process, from downloading the app on Splunkbase, accepting the license agreement, and installing it in your environment, to completing the cloud-connected configuration which now allows you to use the AI Assistant in even more environments!

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.

The video discusses the advantages of using OpenTelemetry Collector over Sumo Logic's installed collectors for data collection and observability. It highlights key features and serves as a guide for organizations considering the transition to OpenTelemetry.

The video highlights the advantages of using OpenTelemetry Collector, emphasizing its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.

In this technical session, we’ll highlight how you and your team can integrate network telemetry in ITSI to extend your visibility for faster root cause analysis, and more context into network-related service impact.

Missed it live? Catch the full recording of OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector — a 1-hour workshop on building telemetry pipelines that never drop a signal. We’ll show you why resilience matters, how to design high-availability architectures, and how to configure the OpenTelemetry Collector with retries, batching, and persistent queues. Plus, you’ll see live demos in both Docker and Kubernetes — including scaling Gateway collectors with an HPA — and how Bindplane makes large-scale management seamless.

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.

In this session will provide insights into optimizing performance, streamlining operations, and gaining deeper insights into your infrastructure. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn how Cisco and Splunk are revolutionizing IT and security operations.

On this Tech Talk we dive into the top use cases of Splunk on Azure cloud migration and Splunk AI integrations with Microsoft Co-pilot – helping customers successfully navigate the ever-increasing threat landscape.

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.

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.

Watch this Tech Talk to learn… What is a Splunk app and how do I get started building an app! How do I test my app and deploy my app on Splunk! How can I share my app with the broader Splunk community!

Watch this Tech Talk to learn: What SPL2 is, and how it extends SPL’s capabilities for developers and admins!How to build your first app with SPL2!How SPL2 can help solve common access control challenges with run-as-owner views, and conduct data quality validation with custom type checks!

On this Tech Talk you can learn: How to keep local copies and exported snapshots of your apps and associated app data.How to simplify the development, management and debugging of Splunk Cloud Apps.Recommended tactics with ACS's APIs, CLI, and Terraform.

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch can search any kind of data? In this video, we break it down with a simple deck of cards analogy that makes indexing easy to understand. Each card is like a JSON document with fields and values, suit, color, number, type. Combine them and you’ve built an index, giving Elasticsearch the power to answer queries like “show me all the red cards” or “show me only the face cards.” If you can describe it, you can index it, and if you can index it, you can search it.

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch actually works? In this quick breakdown, I’ll use a simple spreadsheet analogy to explain the basics from documents and indices to shards, CRUD operations, and mappings. You’ll see how Elasticsearch stores data as JSON documents, splits indices into shards for scalability, uses CRUD with ID hashing for fast lookups, and applies mappings to organize text, numbers, and labels.

Strengthen your supply chain with unified, real-time visibility from Splunk. Monitor, trace, and optimize every stage from sourcing to delivery to reduce risk, ensure quality, and improve resilience.

What is vector search? In this breakdown, learn how vector search leverages machine learning to capture the meaning and context of unstructured data by transforming it into a numeric representation that is stored in a vector database. This video also explains the difference between sparse and dense embeddings, and how vector search differs from semantic search and lexical search.

Led by Sumo Logic experts Andrei and Austin, this session dives into troubleshooting dashboards, silent failure scenarios, and missing collector data—helping your team spot blind spots, catch incidents you never knew you missed, close visibility gaps, and ensure dashboards reflect the full picture for faster resolution.

David Tippet, Search Engineer at GitHub, shares how Elastic powers GitHub’s massive search platform and enables a seamless developer experience. He explains how GitHub balances AI-driven semantic search with traditional keyword search, ensuring accuracy for millions of diverse users, from engineers to security researchers.

Check out the full @bindplane community call in August.

Check out the full @bindplane community call in August.

Logging at scale is a common source of infrastructure expenses and frustration. While logging is something any organization does, there is still no silver bullet or just a simple and scalable solution without tradeoffs.

In this session, we’ll show you how *hybrid search using Elastic* lets you assign weights to different search types — for example, giving semantic search three times more influence than lexical search. This lets you fine-tune the balance between precise keyword matching and broader, context-aware results.

Ever wondered how Wikipedia loads answers instantly? Or how does your Uber update in real-time? That’s Elastic Search working behind the scenes. In this video, I break down how Elastic powers lightning-fast, scalable search for complex data from ride requests to stock prices.

The countdown to CriblCon 25 is on and we’re giving you an exclusive first look at the expert insights, innovative solutions, and success stories you’ll see on the big stage. REST collector configuration can be painful, requiring navigating to multiple screens and importing multiple configuration files, but it’s about to get a lot easier. Join Cribl experts to preview how easily you can install and build new packs with new enhancements.

In this session, we’ll show you how Elastic's ELSER takes a single token like _“Terminator”_ and expands it into semantically related terms such as _software, alien, computer technology,_ and _Connor_ (for John Connor). This makes search results more relevant, even when the exact keyword isn’t used.

What is semantic intent, and why is it crucial in the age of *AI search?* In this episode of Quick Question, we break down how semantic *intent interprets* the meaning behind your query in semantic search. About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

In this video we’ll demonstrate how to use Splunk’s AlwaysOn Profiler to identify and fix a performance bug in a Java web application running on Kubernetes.

In this video, learn about the Site24x7's Log Management Dashboard, Why it's essential, and how to set it up?

Watch AI transform alert management in real-time. This technical demonstration compares manual alert investigation with AI alert investigation. It shows how AI agents automatically investigate production alerts, correlate telemetry across distributed systems, and identify root cause, faster and with more insights than manual processes. Watch and learn how to shift your team from reactive firefighting to proactive system reliability management with agentic AI.

Are you struggling to define reliability targets? Teams nowadays are turning to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), reliability targets that can be used to define how much you can play around with your systems before users are affected too much. While they're a great way of defining reliability targets, they are difficult to manage. That's why we built the SLO Center. One place to define, track, zoom into, and stay on top of all your reliability targets and error budgets - so you can be sure when you can experiment, and when it's best to stay safe.

In this video, I’ll explain what semantic search is and how it’s different from traditional keyword search. I’ll walk you through the limitations of lexical search, what we mean by semantic intent, and how vector search plays a role under the hood. About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.