The path to Warp Speed incident response.
It might also be basic Splunk methods we would like to share.
Do you really know where your log events are?
This APP includes a Dashboard that uses tstats to visualize incoming log events to your indexes. This is more like a practical guide to tstats and the use of already available metadata instead of fetching all events from disk.
If your data is within the reach of tstats, you should consider using that instead of normal searches for your dashboards.
Would you waste The Analysts time?
IOC, Indicator of compromise.
While our friend, The Analyst, have a great amount of knowledge, it is impossible to follow everything the rest of the enterprise do.
An IOC scanner, will speed the work looking for known bad IPaddresses and Hashes in both known and unknown logs in Splunk.
This is more like a story to get to the great results, and it might just need a SPL ninja to get right from the search to the result. The limitations are everywhere.