• What’s Included within the Atlas App Suite?

    Atlas V2021.2.8 arrives with 10 Atlas Elements consisting of Atlas Assessment, App Awareness, Data Management, Data Utilization, Forwarder Awareness, Scheduling Assistant, Scheduling Inspector, ES Helper, Search Library, and STIG Compliance. Atlas can be installed with all or only a few of these elements, based on your current needs. Atlas Assessment…

  • What Are Reference Designs?

    Kinney Group’s Reference Designs are documents created by KGI engineers to communicate the essential aspects of a technological system. The Reference Design enables the reader to adopt and adapt that system. It includes an overview, design details, and results of the solution.  Three Powerful Benefits of Modernizing your Splunk Environment, from Kinney Group and…

  • Understanding Search Library

    Atlas’s Search Library component enables users to access a collection of searches, including detailed information about the SPL query, use case, and tags corresponding to each search.   The Search Library comes with several searches that the KGI team has found to be useful. The user also has the capability to create new searches to…

  • Filtering the Search Library

    Atlas’s Search Library component enables users to access a collection of searches, including detailed information about the SPL query, use case, and tags corresponding to each search.   Users may filter the Search Library to view certain searches by search type, category, sourcetype, CIM datamodel, and tags.   To filter by search type, select…

  • How to Launch a Search

    Opening the Search Library will display a list of searches by name and use case.   To launch a search, click the “Launch Search” button on the right of the search you wish to launch.  Launching a search will open a new tab.   From this tab, users can view the search result…

  • Understanding the Scheduling Assistant

    The Scheduling Assistant Element gives users and admins visibility into their environment concurrency issues like never before. Not only will the Scheduling Assistant give visuals to identify concurrency chokepoints, it will also summarize this complex analysis into a Health Score and offer the tools to improve Splunk environments without needing…

  • Using the Scheduler Assistant Cron Helper

    The Cron Helper is the second tab within Scheduler Assistant.   The software utility Cron is a time-based job scheduler. Users can set up searches to run in Splunk periodically at fixed dates, times, or intervals. Each digit in the expression denotes a specific value: minute, hour, day, month, and weekday.  Use…

  • Viewing Search Details

    Opening the Search Library will display a list of searches by name and use case.  To view details beyond this basic display, click the arrow (>) to the left of the search’s name. This will expand the search and display details regarding SPL query, description, explanation, category, data model, sourcetype, and tags. 

  • Adding a New Search

    To create and save a custom search in the Atlas Search Library, click the “+” symbol on the right of the top banner labeled “Add New Search”.  This will open a “New Search” window.  In this window, enter a name for the search and a use case. These fields will…

  • Editing/Deleting a Saved Search

    Once a new custom search has been created, users can edit or delete it at any time. To do so, expand the search to view the details by clicking the arrow (>) to the left of the search name.   The “Edit Search” and “Delete Search” buttons can be found on the…