Splunk Feature Overview

I'd like to take a moment to show you an overview of Splunk's features - what we call the 'Seven Wonders of IT Search.
Sysadmins, developers, security analysts, auditors and management all love how Splunk turns any IT data into actionable information.

Splunk indexes any kind of IT data from any source. If a machine can generate it, Splunk can eat it. Logs, configurations, scripts and code, message queues, traps and alerts, activity reports, stack traces, metrics and performance data.

Your data is accessed in real-time from network ports, files or scripted inputs to connect to databases, custom APIs and capture the output of status commands. You don’t need any special agents or adapters.

You can search on anything in the original data and get instantaneous results. And the results are interactive so you can navigate through your infrastructure by clicking away! Sysadmins and developers use search to find and fix problems faster. And customer support staff can get to the bottom of problems without needing to escalate.

Searches can be scheduled and turned into alerts. It's a great way to monitor user and system activities across lots of different technologies. You can view your alerts by email, RSS, existing consoles via SNMP or even trigger scripts to take automated actions.

Searches can also be turned into reports, with interactive charts and graphs. Splunk automatically extracts fields from your data so you don't need to worry about managing a database or complex schema.

Reports can be combined to create personalized dashboards for any user or group.

A big part of Splunk is how it helps teams share their IT knowledge. Quickly add your knowledge by tagging hosts, sources and events you understand, Other users will see your tags when viewing similar types of information.

To tap into the knowledge of the worldwide IT community, check out SplunkBase.

You’ll find questions and answers, in-depth how-tos and knowledge about specific events.

SplunkBase is also where you can download great add-ons for your Splunk installation. Searches, alerts, reports and tools created by other Splunk users.

Splunk scales from a quick download and installation on a single server ... to the largest infrastructures with multiple data centers and geographies,...

We all know IT is under more scrutiny in the face of new compliance mandates and regulations. Splunk provides secure handling and retention of your data including granular access controls...and full data signing.

With Splunk you can search, alert, report and share knowledge on all your IT data from any technology. Pick one of the seven wonders you'd like to learn more about and we’ll be happy to show you more.