Splunk Inc.

Philip Royer

Matthew Hanson

Sydney Flak

Govinda Salinas

Colin Fagan

Jeffery Roberts

Techniques are described for enabling users of an information technology (IT) and security operations application to create highly reusable custom functions for playbooks. The creation and execution of playbooks using an IT and security operations application generally enables users to automate operations related to an IT environment responsive to the identification of various types of incidents or other triggering conditions. Users can create playbooks to automate operations such as, for example, modifying firewall settings, quarantining devices, restarting servers, etc., to improve users' ability to efficiently respond to various types of incidents operational issues that arise from time to time in IT environments.

Selecting a custom function from available custom functions to be added into a playbook

Updating reusable custom functions across playbooks

Reusable custom functions for playbooks

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Boston, MA, United States of America

Philip Royer