About Splunk

Splunk is an IT Search engine. It is software that indexes any format of IT data from any source in real time, including logs, configurations, scripts, code, messages, traps, alerts, activity reports, stack traces and metrics from all of your applications, servers and devices. Splunk lets you search, navigate, alert and report on all your IT data in real time using an AJAX web interface.

This manual will teach you to use Splunk. See the installation manual and administration manual for guidance on installing, configuring and managing Splunk.

You can also share knowledge and Splunk solutions with other members of the Splunk community via SplunkBase.

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Comments

Anyone with specific howto questions should email support@splunk.com or post to Splunk's forums, linked under www.splunk.com > services > forums. The docs comments are meant to capture problems with the specific page of documentation you are viewing to help others who may have the same issue in contect.

Ganesh, I forwarded your issue above to support today.
Posted by cfrln on Jul 06 2007, 3:20pm
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Posted by ganeshagarwal on Jul 03 2007, 3:15am
I have installed splunk 3 beta server on my Web server. I have a mysql 5 server on a diiferent machine. How do i set up splunk server to do search and index mysql data. Do i need to install splunk on my sql server also? also please tell me the steps to add any remote server for splunk to analyse.
Posted by ganeshagarwal on Jul 03 2007, 3:10am