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 250,000 people have downloaded Splunk.
More than 700 enterprises, service providers and government agencies like 21st Century Insurance, Aetna, BEA, British Telecom, Catholic Healthcare West, 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.
Splunk is a free download that installs in less than 5 minutes and uninstalls without a trace by deleting just one directory.
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Splunk has snagged well-known Silicon Valley manager Godfrey Sullivan as its new president and chief executive.Sullivan was attracted to the company for its growth potential...Read more »
Godfrey Sullivan was appointed chief executive of Splunk, a San Francisco upstart that specializes in collecting and searching information produced by hardware systems. Read more »
"If you haven't heard of Splunk, stop reading and check it out; it is simply unmatched as a security log analysis tool." Read more »
Gala Coral Triumphs Over PCI Compliance with Splunk Gaming Group Integrates Compliance with Security, Application Availability and Change Management System Read more.
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 »
SIM, SEM, SIEM? Situational Awareness is next.
We've been hearing a lot lately about the death of SIEM technologies. But isn't the question less about a legacy technology dying and more about the dimensions on which the next mass adopted security capability will be born?… Read more »
Caught on tape! Splunk Ninja vs. Sciencelogic Special Forces
A few weeks ago, Louis DiMeglio and I did a "quasi-podcast-ish" Q and A session discussing experiences at this year's Interop shows (Las Vegas in May, and the upcoming New York show in September). This session is over on… Read more »
Write your own search language
Splunk provides many power search commands - such as sort, fields, transactions - but even better, it allows you to expand things anyway you want, by writing your own search commands. I'll show you how to write your own search command… 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 »
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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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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