We are proud to celebrate a special milestone: Datapunctum turns 5 years old!

The biggest Boss of the SOC event in the Alps regions has been held yesterday. A total of 48 teams with 160 participants played at the BOTS event organized by Splunk Switzerland and the Swiss branch of the Splunk User Group (i09).

Our last blog post discussed how "Alert Manager" was created and about the unexpected success after the Apptitude contest. Running an open-source project comes with its own distinct set of challenges. One of the most common misconceptions about open-source software is that it is not "free" for everyone. Indeed, the maintainers have to invest much time and commit to the project on top of a full-time job.

Back in November 2014, Splunk announced its first Apptitude App challenge. The concept of a KVStore was just added to Splunk and opened many new possibilities to develop complex Splunk Apps.