Receiver Indexer specifies the Splunk instance from which your Forwarder will receive the data. That is, the Forwarder is configured to send data to a Receiver or Indexer. When you select this option, ...

One of the most requested features I hear from clients as a Splunk Managed Services Provider (MSSP) is to have a mechanism for managing the version of the Splunk Universal Forwarder across the ...

Splunk is warning of a critical vulnerability which endangers any endpoint subscribed to a Splunk deployment server. As the company explains here, Universal Forwarders are modules that collect client ...

One of the Splunk 10 features I’m most excited about is the “Effective Configuration” dashboard. In this blog post, I’ll explore why this might be my favorite new Splunk 10 feature so far! You likely ...

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions. Learn how to fix it. Image generated by Google’s Nano Banana A newly ...