How It's Different
Users Want to Use It
"The speed with which Splunk returns results makes you want to use it. It's addictive!"
—Dennis Scales, Director, Information Services, Fidelity National Information Services
It's no wonder users are enthusiastic fans of our software, Splunk's founders focused on creating software that they really wanted to use. People in the trenches - sysadmins, security analysts, network engineers, developers, service desk and support staff can use Splunk right away and get the hard parts of their jobs done better, faster and more easily. Splunk's Web interface is designed to be intuitive, fast, and support rapid, ad-hoc 'drill down' into any type of IT data.
Splunk users routinely solve problems in minutes that used to take them hours or days. That's the power of Splunk, and the reason users love it.
Immediate Results Without the Risk
"Splunk's ROI was less than a week. We witnessed a tremendous increase in productivity."
—David Hazekamp, Former Security Analyst, Motorola
We're impatient, so we made our software easy to download and install. You don't need to wait for an appliance delivery or an army of consultants to show up for it to work. You can download Splunk for free, install it in 5 minutes on your laptop or on any commodity server, feed it any IT data, and start Splunking. Try it, prove it, all within a day. Most users download and install Splunk for the first time while they're under fire. A serious service problem or security incident in progress can be nerve racking but with Splunk you can calmly complete your investigation in a few minutes versus hours or days.
Eats All Your IT Data
"Splunk will index whatever data we want to put in it. It not only indexes data it correlates it too."
—Allen Bettilyon, Director Network Systems Operations, Overstock.com
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 for each data source, Splunk's Universal Indexing technology just works with any data source. Really. No need to be dependent on a vendor to produce a specific connector for you if it's not available. Splunk continually indexes all your IT data in real time - your logs, configuration data, change events, the output of diagnostic commands, data from APIs and message queues, even logs from your custom applications. The IT 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 index, search, alert and report on it.
Built to Be Flexible
"We brought Splunk in initially for compliance - BS-7799, SOX, PCI - but after we got it in we found it to be very valuable for troubleshooting and security."
—Trevis Edgeworth, Sr. Director of Network Architecture, Epsilon Data Management
The only constant in today's dynamic, virtualized datacenters is change, and what we think we know is often wrong. Traditional IT management approaches 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. IT organizations spend more time customizing and maintaining tools than using them! Splunk continually indexes all your IT 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.
Designed For All Types of Users
"Our Director of Operations creates a dashboard in minutes with Splunk. The data is always up to date, so he can really keep his finger on the pulse of what's important."
—Sean Delaney, Senior Systems & Security Administrator, Verisign
Once indexed and searchable, Splunk’s makes it easy to build custom dashboards and make sense of the huge volumes of data at your disposal. You can create rich, personalized dashboards in minutes tailored to specific use cases and roles, such as for management, analysts, auditors, developers and sysadmins. The Splunk App Framework lets you do even more with Splunk. Customers, partners and the community can build, package and deploy your own Apps on top of Splunk for specific use cases or to augment vendor technologies. Splunk makes it easy to fully leverage the value of IT data from every desktop.
Scales from Laptop to Datacenter
"We evaluated Splunk on our laptops, immediately saw the value, and are scaling it across all of our data for accurate analysis and troubleshooting."
—Peter Mierau, Engineering Manager, Adobe
In a time when every expense is scrutinized, you don't always have the resources you need. That's why we priced and built Splunk to fit all environments. You can download it and run it on your laptop for free. You can even put it on the existing, low-end logging server that you may already have and buy a small Enterprise license. But once you're ready, the same software you downloaded and installed in 5 minutes can be scaled out across the largest datacenters to index terabytes of data a day.
Next Steps
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