Why Splunk?
Splunk is enterprise software made easy. It's easy to try -- you can download it here for FREE. It's easy to set up -- no database licenses to buy, no schema to design, no custom connectors to maintain. It's also easy to deploy--customers go live in days or weeks instead of months and years. We built Splunk as a better way to collect and harness all your machine data. Splunk has the flexibility to do any type of real-time and historical analysis, and the power to deliver custom dashboards and views to anyone in your organization.
More than 3,700 enterprises, universities, government agencies, and service providers in more than 75 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost, and mitigates cyber-security risk.
Fast Payback Without the Risk
Provided as a free download or low-cost enterprise license, Splunk is simple to deploy, scales from a single server deployment to global large-scale operations and delivers fast payback. Download Splunk for free, install it in 5 minutes on your laptop or on any commodity server, point it at any machine data and start Splunking. Splunk is often deployed for the first time while under fire. A serious service outage or security incident in progress is stressful, but with Splunk, you can complete your investigation in a few minutes versus hours or days.
Director of Software Architecture
Users Want to Use It
Most users quickly become enthusiastic fans of Splunk because our founders focused on creating software they wanted to use. People in the trenches -- sysadmins, security analysts, network engineers, developers, service desk and support staff can deploy Splunk right away and get the hard parts of their jobs done better, faster and more easily. Splunk's Web interface is intuitive, fast and supports rapid, ad hoc drill down into search results.
Director, Information Services
Eats All Your Machine Data
Unlike other system management, SIEM and log management products that require you to spend days or weeks developing or configuring specific parsers and custom connectors, Splunk connects to any data source. No need to be dependent on a vendor to produce a specific connector for you if it's not available. Splunk indexes all your machine data in real time -- logs, configuration data, clickstream data, change events, the output of diagnostic commands, data from APIs and message queues, even logs from custom applications. Data that is critical for troubleshooting, security incident investigations, compliance reporting and other valuable tasks is now right at your finger tips. If a machine can generate it, Splunk can eat it.
Director Network Systems Operations
Keeps Up With Dynamic Environments
The only constant in today's dynamic, virtualized datacenters is change. Traditional IT management and security technologies assume you know about all possible failures and risks up front and that your data formats won't change, but this just doesn't work anymore. Splunk continually indexes all your machine data in real time and doesn't rely on brittle schemas that limit your flexibility and break when the data formats change. Any interpretation you need to do on the data, such as extracting a common field or tagging a subset of hosts, can be easily done on-the-fly as you search. That's why one of the top things you hear from Splunk users everywhere is that it's incredibly flexible.
Director of Network Security and Architecture
For All Types of Users
Splunk makes it easy to build custom dashboards and reports that make sense of the huge volumes of data at your disposal. Combine pre-defined searches, charts, alerts and reports into a powerful dashboard, or create mashups with other web-based applications, such as Tivoli, SAP, Oracle, security consoles and more. Splunk arms network engineers, system administrators, security and compliance analysts, developers, support/service desk staff and business users with an up-to-the-moment understanding of what's happening in their IT infrastructure.
Senior Systems & Security Administrator
Meets Strategic Needs Across IT
Splunk invented a new approach to managing machine data and unlocking its value. Using Splunk as the engine to search and analyze machine data is changing the way users do their jobs and making IT more strategic. Users experience significantly higher productivity and businesses experience more uptime, less revenue disruption and happier customers. Many customers start using Splunk to solve a specific problem area, quickly make their initial use case an internal success, then deploy Splunk to other critical areas of IT, such as Application Management, Security & Compliance, Infrastructure & Operations Management and to gain new business intelligence.
Sr. Director of Network Architecture
Scales from Laptop to Datacenter
You have to do more with less and you and you need to do it faster. Splunk lets you search billions of events in seconds on a single commodity server. Its parallel architecture means search and indexing performance scales linearly across commodity servers. Splunk uses its own highly efficient datastore and is not restricted by the throughput constraints or rigid schemas of traditional databases, making it the fastest, most flexible way to search, alert and report on your machine data.
Engineering Manager