suky bal
“We can generate ad-hoc reports to track any transaction or user activity QSA auditors want to see and easily show we are PCI compliant in minutes. I've decreed Splunk will be a part of all data center build-outs going forward.”
—Suky Bal, Director of IT
robert reilly
“Thanks to Splunk, our application issues are identified and resolved before they become problems that affect our customers.”
—Robert Reilly, Senior Manager, Systems Engineer
David Hazekamp
“Splunk’s ROI was less than a week. We witnessed a tremendous increase in productivity.”
—David Hazekamp, Former Senior Security Analyst
dan mactiernan
“Splunk means cutting our MTTR in half, and not having to escalate beyond our first tier agent. It gives us cost-reductions and keeps our business running at a higher standard.”
—Dan MacTiernan, Business Architect
Andre Kocher
“Splunk cuts down on the time to identify and investigate server problems by providing central access to all our IT data.”
—Andre Kocher, Senior System Engineer
Paulo Carvalho
“Splunk reduced our escalations by 90% and our problem resolution time by 67%.”
—Paulo Carvalho, Network Services Support Manager
David Jones
“Splunk automated our evidence gathering for SOX compliance, freeing up engineers to work on revenue-generating activities vs. compliance related tasks.”
—David Jones, IT Operations Manager
Dave McCallum
“Splunk gives our customer service, NOC staff and network engineers comprehensive real-time event data for incident response, chronic problem identification and optimization.”
—Dave McCallum, Platform Architect
peter bassill
“We chose Splunk for PCI compliance for its ability to collate and report on any form of log file or data stream. It gives us highly granular logging information and turns any data into a concise management report.”
—Peter D. Bassill, CISSP, Group Information Security Officer

Making IT Easier

All the applications, servers and network devices in your IT infrastructure generate data every second of every day vital for managing, securing and auditing IT. But using this IT data is time-consuming and painful, because it’s locked in silos of people and technology and scattered throughout the organization. Splunk approached the problem differently and invented powerful search technology for IT data. Now you can search and analyze all your IT data from a single location in real time and solve problems in minutes that used to take hours or days.

With more than 350,000 product downloads, tens of thousands of users and over 1,100 licensed enterprises, service providers and government agencies have chosen Splunk and are seeing incredible results. Teams are more effective, problems get resolved in a fraction of the time, compliance mandates are being met and security risks are radically reduced. Splunk’s versatility is its strength. The same product supports multiple critical functions of IT - Application Management, Infrastructure and Operations Management, Security and Compliance and more. IT is simply more effective with Splunk.

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Application Management

Dramatically reduce application downtime and escalations by speeding problem diagnosis, freeing developers from time-consuming production support and fixing problems before your customers see them. Index, search and analyze all your packaged and custom application data from a single location in real time, troubleshooting and identifying problems proactively and gaining visibility into service levels in minutes instead of hours or days.

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Operations Management

Provide complete visibility and analysis across all your servers and network devices from one place and without the need to license or deploy separate agents. Quickly detect and resolve issues and meet your availability and performance SLAs. Use Splunk to address critical Operations Management functions, such as Change Monitoring, by detecting changes and investigating security and operational incidents whose root cause is change. Virtualization Management, by capturing and persisting 100% of your IT data in real time across every tier of your infrastructure – the physical servers, hypervisor, VMs, and deployed applications. Service Desk, by providing Tier 1 support staff direct and secure access to the data they need to resolve issues the first time. And of course Server Management and Network Management, by leveraging all your IT data, from logs to metrics and configurations.

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Security and Compliance

Radically cut incident investigation times by searching all security-relevant data in seconds, for all types of security risks including complex fraud and insider threat issues. Monitor all security-relevant data to maintain situational awareness. Satisfy the requirements of multiple mandates in the same system, such as PCI, SOX and FISMA. Meet specific requirements to securely collect and retain audit trails, and perform file integrity monitoring. Streamline log monitoring and analysis, by using and analyzing all your logs securely from one central location – not just security, network and host logs, but also all the application logs.

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The Long Tail

Splunk was built for the IT datacenter, but our customers are using it to solve an incredible range of problems. Analyze call detail records (CDRs) or event detail records (EDRs), perform eDiscovery, tackle analytics and data warehouse problems, correlate power usage with IT infrastructure data, and analyze scientific data with alerts based on thresholds. Splunk can eat any kind of unstructured data, so all you need is a web browser and your imagination.

We call this virtually unlimited usage of Splunk the "long tail", and we're always on the lookout for the new and exciting things our users are doing with Splunk. Read on to learn more about a few of these adventurous deployments, and contact us at info@splunk.com if you've found a new data source or use for Splunk in your environment.

Clickstream and Web Analytics

Once the domain of webmasters monitoring site hits, then marketing departments reporting on trends, this information has finally proven valuable for both IT operations and the business as a whole. Feed this data into Splunk, and you'll gain insight into online shopping patterns, lost revenue due to network latencies or poor customer experiences and other ecommerce issues. Find out why users are dropping off your site before revenue-generating advertisements are served, understand the effectiveness of the ads you display, and see how alternate content performs against the rest of your site. Splunk gives you the ability to get to the answers you're looking for in real time, generate dashboard reports for business professionals and alert on any data point, even for sites generating terabytes of information a day.

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