Splunk is a software which is used for monitoring, searching, analyzing and visualizing the machine-generated data in real time. Splunk reduces troubleshooting and resolving time by offering instant results. Splunk is available in three different versions are 1)Splunk Enterprise 2) Splunk Light 3) Splunk Cloud. , and more items.
Yet another question we ran across in our research was “What splunk does?”.
One article argued that 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.
This of course begs the question “What is Splunk and how to use it?”
Well, splunk is a software used to search and analyze machine data. This machine data can come from web applications, sensors, devices or any data created by user. It serves the needs of IT infrastructure by analyzing the logs generated in various processes but it can also analyze any structured or semi-structured data with proper data modelling.
Since Splunk can store and process large amounts of data, data analysts like myself started feeding big data to Splunk for analysis. Dashboards meant for visualization was a revelation and within no time Splunk was extensively used in the big data domain for analytics.
The answer to that question is, yes! There is a version of Splunk known as Splunk Free. It is totally a free version . The free license permits you to index up to 500 MB per day, and it never expires.
Splunk at AWS Summit Splunk Inc. is an American technology company based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a Web-style interface.
What is Splunk search and alerts?
Searching in Splunk involves using the indexed data for the purpose of creating metrics, predicting future trends and identifying patterns in the data. Splunk alerts can be used to trigger emails or RSS feeds when some specific criteria are found in the data being analyzed.
Why Splunk real time processing?
Real time processing is Splunk’s biggest selling point because, we have seen storage devices get better and better over the years, we have seen processors become more efficient with every ageing day, but not data movement. This technique has not improved and this is the bottleneck in most of the processes within organizations.
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.