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Metadata Harvesting Benefits, Risks, and Why “No Logs” Claims Fall Short

Metadata harvesting is the process of automatically collecting descriptive data about other data ... for example, timestamps, geolocation tags, device identifiers, access logs, and relationships between data assets without necessarily extracting the underlying content itself. The practice underpins many modern data systems, from scholarly search engines and enterprise data catalogs to large-scale surveillance and profiling systems.

Is Splunk Alerting

I recently came cross an issue where Splunk stopped alerting, honestly, no idea why.. Still investigating. But in the interim I wanted to get some additional context for the investigation. I will update this post once I have more details but I ended up building this dashboard that shows the past 7 days of alerting with some different contextual views with a timepicker defaulted to last 7 days:

General Splunk Things

This page will host general Splunk things that I find useful to reference and keep an eye on things in Splunk.

Splunk is a data mining tool that is geared for speedy indexing of high amounts of data. Using this data it specializes in being able to visualize this data in order to make sense of your logs. It captures, indexes and correlates near real-time machine data in a searchable repository from which you can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and more.

  • in DevOps, Git
  • 3 min read

gitignore

Introduction

The .gitignore file is a simple text file that tells Git which files and folders in a repo it should ignore. These files can be stored at the repo level or at the global level. To get a good setup for your needs, you can use gitignore.io to create your file with the entries you need.