The old way: Limited view drives server management cost.

In most organizations, centralized server event management is limited to filtered SNMP traps and minimal performance metrics at best. The agents required to provide this limited view are costly - often multiple agents need to be licensed and run on the same physical server. Identifying and diagnosing server problems still usually involves directly accessing individual servers and running diagnostic commands and writing homegrown scripts to analyze logs and configurations. Hiring often can't keep pace with server proliferation and availability and efficiency suffers.

The new way: IT Search integrates metrics, logs and configs.

Splunk indexes all IT data generated by your servers — logs, configurations, metrics and even the output of diagnostic commands — in one place. It runs across virtually every major operating system platform including multiple Unix and Linux flavors as well as Windows. Ad hoc searches are simple and fast and you no longer need to individually log on to different servers. Searches can be saved and scheduled as proactive alerts. Tags let you group related servers and events on the fly. Reports and dashboards let you keep watch across the servers you manage. Splunk slashes the time required to find and analyze problems and eliminates many costly and redundant agents.