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 it?
What is Splunk and what are its features?
Splunk allows you to accept any data type like .csv, json, log formats, etc. Offers most powerful search analysis, and visualization capabilities to empower users of all types. Allows you to create a central repository for searching Splunk data from various sources. Important features of Splunk are: Splunk is available in three different versions.
What is Splunkbase?
Splunkbase is a community hosted by Splunk where users can go to find apps and add-ons for Splunk which can improve the functionality and usefulness of Splunk, as well as provide a quick and easy interface for specific use-cases and/or vendor products. Splunk apps and add-ons can be developed by anyone,.
What is Splunk used for in software testing?
Splunk is a software mainly used for searching, monitoring, and examining machine-generated Big Data through a web-style interface. Splunk performs capturing, indexing, and correlating the real-time data in a searchable container from which it can produce graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
What makes Splunk so fast?
This makes Splunk available on multiple platforms and can be installed speedily on any software. If one server is not enough another can be added easily and data is distributed across both these servers evenly. This increases the speed with the number of machines that is holding the data.
Splunk accepts all data immediately after installation. It does not have any fixed schema and takes all data as it is. When it starts searching the data at that time it performs field extraction. Mostly all log formats are recognized automatically and everything else can be specified in configuration files.
What is Splunk’s mission and vision?
Splunk’s mission is to make machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations.
Another popular question is “How did Splunk help in the healthcare industry?”.
One idea is that they collected the healthcare data from the remotely located patients using Io. T devices (sensors). Splunk would process this data and any abnormal activity would be reported to the doctor and patient via the patient interface. Splunk helped them achieve the following:.