Server Management

Too Many Data Sources, Too Many Consoles

Datacenters are complicated heterogeneous environments and the sheer number of tools required to monitor servers makes them difficult to use and manage. Separate tools for Linux, Unix and Windows , and the number of agents required for these different environments is complex and costly to manage, and lack the flexibility to monitor new issues when they arise. When it comes to day-to-day troubleshooting, administrators at large server farms need to look at consoles for too many individual servers at once to look at logs, system status and configs.

Does it feel like there are not enough hours in the day to maintain your organizations' server infrastructure, let alone grow it or ensure alignment with other business objectives? Is your server management inconsistent across servers from different vendors and requiring costly agents - adding time and cost for software development? Are you looking at too many different consoles to monitor different parts of the environment? Is it too hard to troubleshoot problems across servers? Do your administrators routinely have consoles open to multiple servers at once?

Manage the Entire Datacenter from One Place in Real Time

With Splunk, users can now index, search and analyze all their machine data from a single location in real time. Customers are using Splunk to dramatically simplify server management and get back in control. Splunk lets you collect, search and report on all your server data from one place in real time. Detect and rapidly resolve issues. Monitor all your server data for warning signs from one place. Work across diverse and complicated environments in an integrated way. Find issues before they become chronic and avoid playing the blame game.

  • Do more with less: Splunk works across all your servers and gives you the visibility you need to search, alert and report on all your servers. Spend less time integrating management tools, less time managing, and more time driving real business results for your company.
  • Get the visibility you need: automatically monitor the status of all your servers from one place and detect problems as soon as they occur.
  • Resolve problems faster: search, drill down and analyze all your server data from one place in real time.

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Splunk Benefits

  • Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by troubleshooting all your server data from one place.
  • Simplify and improve monitoring of all server issues using a single tool with the flexibility to alert on any conditions based on any data.
  • Meet availability and performance SLAs by improving monitoring and troubleshooting by searching, analyzing and alerting on all your server data from one place.
  • Lower operational costs by reducing time spent on troubleshooting issues.
  • Drive greater operational simplicity by using a single system for monitoring all your servers without the need to purchase or manage new, specialized agents.
  • Lower cost of ownership versus traditional server monitoring tools by using a single system for monitoring servers without the need to purchase or manage new, specialized agents.
  • Reduce maintenance costs by eliminating the need for homegrown server monitoring solutions.
  • Expand monitoring coverage across all your servers across your entire IT infrastructure from one place.

Server Management Next Steps

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Server Management Using Splunk

Index any and all data generated by virtually any host operating system - from event logs, perfmon, registry changes and WMI on Windows, to syslog, system metrics like ps and top, and filesystem changes and configuration files on Unix and Linux. All in real time.
Systems administrators will immediately start investigating server problems using Splunk, avoiding the console hell of logging into multiple servers and manually grepping logfiles, running scripts, and the like.
As they search, they'll identify and filter on fields in their data, and classify and tag events with their significance, such as kernel panics, administrator actions, etc. Other administrators and even tier 1 NOC staff then benefit from this knowledge.
Over time, administrators will turn searches into proactive alerts for performance thresholds, critical system errors and load. Splunk's search-based monitoring can extend coverage to new servers and operating systems, without the need to purchase or manage new, specialized agents. Alerts can notify administrators via email, or trigger scripts to take corrective actions or integrate with existing ticketing or event management systems.
Operations managers can take advantage of flexible reports and dashboards summarizing server health in order to manage service levels. Once Splunk is integrated into daily workflows, sysadmins will start to proactively search logs and system metrics to identify unexpected trends and anomalies.