Splunk is IT Search
Search and navigate IT data from applications, servers and network devices in real-time. Logs, configurations, messages,
traps and alerts, scripts, code, metrics and more. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it. It's easy to download and use and
it's very powerful.
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One platform. Many applications.
The first integrated approach to keeping infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Collect and organize your IT data once and make it available to any application. What do you need Splunk for?
Operations.
Improve service levels and recover from problems faster.
Security.
Thwart attacks with quick, in-depth incident response.
Compliance.
E-Discovery, FFIEC, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX without disrupting operations.
Business Intelligence.
See your transactions as they happen.
Over 200,000 people have downloaded Splunk.
More than 600 enterprises, service providers and government agencies like 21st Century Insurance, Aetna, BEA, British Telecom, Catholic Healthcare West, Chevron, Cisco, Comcast, Dow Jones, LinkedIn, Motorola, MySpace, NASA, Orbitz, Raytheon, Riverbed, Shopzilla, T-Mobile, Telstra, Verisign, Visa and Vodafone are Splunk customers. See how these people are using Splunk.
News & Events
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Erik Swan, Splunk's CTO, talks about how Splunk works, how you can get it for free and the driving force behind the company's tools. Listen now »
Splunk is a free download that installs in less than 5 minutes and uninstalls without a trace by deleting just one directory.
Man Versus Machine: Part One
Recently I gave a talk at the BT annual technology gathering. The setting was a really beautiful estate called The Grove just north of London in Hertfordshire England. A couple hundred of BT's smartest technology managers were in attendance and I was… Read more »
Search engine for virtual sprawl - vmware app for splunk
**** UPDATE - 08/27/08 **** I have updated the app with a few fixes found in the field. hopefully fixed issue on AIX (IBM jvm ) added output of host/vm name on update messages. It was hard to tell where the messages were… Read more »
Splunk and iPhone
I've been playing with a few things that will eventually turn into an iPhone application to talk to Splunk via the REST API. I don't have a lot to say about it right now due to other issues but I do have a little something to… Read more »
The Commoditization of the IT Professional (or is there a new Black Art?)
A recent gathering of friends (a group of IT gray-hairs, artists, and lawyers) had got me thinking about IT as a profession, and the development of the industry since I got involved 20 years ago. The question posed to the group was about whether we would recommend our current professions to our children. This query, a few others, and perhaps… Read more »
Splunking pitchfork album reviews
One of my favorite sites is the record review and music news site pitchfork media. On the site they have a bunch of interesting statistics like top record for each decade/year but these are obviously a more subjective list than if they crunched the raw stats. For example their #1 album of the nineties is… Read more »
Ode to Log Management
I love "log management." I hate log management. I love log management because years ago it was the impetus for IT to move beyond simple SNMP monitoring to collecting and trying to understand a much richer set of data about complex environments. I hate log management for over the years it has been co-opted by vendors and analysts who've pigeon… Read more »
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"Splunk is awesome: it's multiplatform, easy to install and easy to use. And with an abstraction layer of logs, configuration files and system messages, traps and alerts, it's seriously useful."
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