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I built my own analytics App for Splunk to offer business insights for my wife's small business. Mostly how traffic correlates with purchases and where buyers are coming from.

As a side effect same system detects malware and cyber attacks on other websites pretty well as well.

https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2676/




Whoa. That's badass.

Do you pull any info regarding the IP addresses, or is it only the raw logs that you're going through?


Only raw logs. Splunk resolves IP to Country/Region/City (and geo coordinates if wanted to map these).

Mostly playing with raw logs and then even RAW-er logs using Splunk Stream (thing that switches network interface in promiscuous mode and gives me all data for all protocols and any context I ever want).

For example I can analyze anomalies in web hits and anomalies in web session to discover new, previously unknown traffic sources and patterns.

It helped to discover 2 new classes of cyberattacks I didn't know were targeting my server.


Sounds really useful. I'll have to check that out.




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