Category: Splunk

Does splunk require java?

Splunk doesn’t require Java and Splunk Enterprise doesn’t use it. Upgrading JVM won’t impact Splunk. If you a are using any apps/add-ons to fetch details from JVM then you must confirm from respective app developers. Another inquiry we ran across in our research was “What is the Splunk SDK for Java?”. Here is what my […]

What are splunk forwarders?

Splunk forwarder is one of the components of splunk infrastructure. Splunk forwarder basically acts as agent for log collection from remote machines. Splunk forwarder collects logs from remote machines and forward s them to indexer (Splunk database) for further processing and storage. Now in this Splunk training, we will learn how Splunk works: Forwarder collect […]

What language does splunk use?

The Splunk daemon is written in C++ and offers a solid internal architecture for fast and effective data collection, storage, indexing and search capabilities. A Splunk query uses the software’s Search Processing Language to communicate with a database or source of data. This allows data users to per form analysis of their data by querying […]

What is splunk and what does it do?

Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc. which make up your IT infrastructure and business. If you have a machine which is generating data continuously and you want to analyze the machine state in real time, then how will you do […]