r/Splunk is a subreddit with 25k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses splunk, security, logs, admin, and certification.
Do you love big data and cannot lie? Need to take the SH out of IT? Need a ninja but they are too busy? If so, then you are in the right place! This is a place to discuss Splunk, the big data analytics software. Ask questions, share tips, build apps!
Popular Themes in r/Splunk
#1
Advice Requests
: "Best way to learn as a complete beginner?"
19 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Splunk Add-on for M365 - How to get additional data from Entra for devices?"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "If SplunkCloud maintains the indexer layer, why are they giving the customer "red metrics" related to things only they can control?"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "got tired of spending hours on dashboards from vague requests, so i built a tool that generates Splunk blueprints from plain English"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Need an experienced Splunk Administrator - Top Secret Clearance Required - Who wants to work for a great company?!"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Open sourced an AI that queries Splunk during incidents"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Splunk
#1
Splunk
: "Just passed the Splunk certified enterprise administrator exam!"
257 posts
#2
Security
: "Passed the Splunk Enterprise Security Certificate Admin exam!!!"
27 posts
#3
Logs
: "Issues with entraID Logs and azure Logs going to splunk cloud"
19 posts
#4
Admin
: "Need an experienced Splunk Administrator - Top Secret Clearance Required - Who wants to work for a great company?!"
11 posts
#5
Certification
: "Why so many people struggle with Splunk Certification exams (patterns I keep seeing)"
10 posts
#6
Upgrade
: "Splunk release 'Remote Upgrader for Windows Universal Forwarders'"
9 posts
#7
Dashboard
: "Dashboard ideas to impress people who know nothing about Splunk/IT?"
9 posts
#8
Cloud
: "Issues with entraID logs and azure logs going to splunk Cloud"
8 posts
#9
Ai
: "Open sourced an Ai that queries Splunk during incidents"
8 posts
#10
Certified
: "Enterprise Certified Admin"
8 posts
Flair Used in r/Splunk
#1
Splunk Enterprise
: "How would you approach learning and documenting a Splunk deployment?"
24 posts
#2
Announcement
: "Congratulations to the SplunkTrust for 2025-2026"
8 posts
#3
Apps/Add-ons
: "Thoughts on Splunk’s Paloalto new app?"
5 posts
#4
Enterprise Security
: "Passed the Splunk Enterprise Security Certificate Admin exam!!!"
4 posts
#5
.CONF
: "Splunk Events app has been updated for .conf25"
4 posts
#6
Technical Support
: "What’s your go-to trick for speeding up Splunk searches on large datasets?"
4 posts
#7
memes
: "Why, though, Splunk?"
3 posts
#8
Events
: "It's Search party time @.Conf25"
2 posts
#9
Employment
: "Job at Splunk"
2 posts
#10
Splunk Cloud
: "Cutting Splunk costs by migrating data to external storage?"
2 posts
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+4k members(18.7%)
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Last updated: June 16, 2026