Month: March 2018

Creating Splunk lookup files using Beautiful Soup and web scraping

As I’ve blogged previously, I use a Raspberry Pi to collect data on passing commercial aircraft, and recently I got the same data into Splunk and started dashboarding with it. So far, so good. However, I felt that the data presented in Splunk wasn’t quite as rich as I’d like it to be. Sure, it … [Read more…]

SOLVED: How do I combine two columns in MySQL into a third column?

The solution I had for my Raspberry Pi Radar device originally borrowed on the work of the 10pm blogger and so it used the same convention for date and time as separate columns in the database table. This is fine, to an extent, but there came a need for me to be able to reference … [Read more…]