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 175,000 people have downloaded Splunk.
More than 600 enterprises, service providers and government agencies like 21st Century Insurance, Aetna, BEA, Bloomberg, British Telecom, Catholic Healthcare West, Chevron, Cisco, Comcast, Dow Jones, LinkedIn, Motorola, MySpace, NASA, Orbitz, Raytheon, Riverbed, Shopzilla, T-Mobile, Telstra, Thomson, Verisign, Visa and Vodafone are Splunk customers. See how these people are using Splunk.
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Splunk is a free download that installs in less than 5 minutes and uninstalls without a trace by deleting just one directory.
Open Letter to Company Leaders
Dear CEO, CTO, CIO, and other Company Leaders, Consider this letter a wake-up call. As an individual responsible for setting the vision of your company, please be aware that the people who work for you now, those smart, intelligent, high-tech individuals who believe in your vision, who are extremely proud of serving you, do not want to let you… Read more »
Splunk Ninja - So You’re Interested in Video now?
This episode gives our faithful and inquisitive viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the Splunk Ninja's ghetto-tech operation. Some viewers have been wondering, how I put all of these videos together, what equipment to use and what software or websites to get started with. Covered in this no-holds-barred, blockbuster epic, multi-dollar budgeted… 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 »
Security Information Management (SIM) is dead
Pretty much exactly 5 years ago, in June 2003, Gartner declared Intrusion Detection Systems to be dead. Before Gartner can do so, I will state that SIM is dead. The crime landscape has shifted. We used to be worried about network layer attacks, TCP/IP attacks where funky flags were crashing your systems. This is gone. We really don’t worry about… Read more »
Tell us your Splunk story at Interop
Are you planning on being at Interop in Vegas April 27-May 2? Do you use Splunk? If so, I'd love to hear from you. I'll be there with the Splunk video team and we'd love to record some new interviews with Splunk users. If you haven't seen some of the user interview videos we've already done, check them out. They're the best way to learn about how… Read more »
Splunk for Virtualization
I'm looking for some help. I've built a VMWare app for splunk and in the process of doing the same for Xen. These Apps use the VMWare and Xensource API's to index everything about the VM environment. When combined with splunk instances running within the guest OS you get a very comprehensive historical picture. I'm curious are there any splunk… 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."
» Download the 451 Impact ReportThe Guide to IT Search
What is IT Search? Why is it changing the way data centers are managed? Discover why it's not just about log management anymore and how you can apply Splunk in your environment.
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"Splunk eliminated hours of manual analysis per ticket. We now have proactive visibility into our SOA infrastructure."
Mike Danley, Senior Manager, Foundational Services
» Read the case studyDemystifying Compliance
Understand the top five myths of compliance. We provide you with a quick recipes to understand the major mandates and what it means for IT management.
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"Splunk helped us push the needle in the haystack to the top of the stack."
Josh Gluck, Assistant Director, Network and Communication Services Group
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