Splunk 4 Free

Users Can Now Download the Free Version of Splunk 4

SAN FRANCISCO – October 27, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced availability of the free version of Splunk 4. Splunk 4 re-defined the speed of previous releases with 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing. Splunk Free brings the power of Splunk 4 to personal users, providing the ability to search, visualize and report on practically any machine-generated data – speeding problem resolution, incident investigations, and IT analytics. Today's announcement enables anyone to download Splunk for free, and also includes a 60-day trial of the full Splunk 4 Enterprise functionality.

"Since the beginning, a free version was a critical part of what made Splunk, Splunk. We were frustrated with the tools available for running IT, so we built Splunk Free for everyone to add to their bag of tricks," said Erik Swan, CTO and co-founder, Splunk. "Our users can now get our latest and greatest release, Splunk 4, for free. Splunk Free has everything you'd want in a personal IT utility knife with dramatically improved speed, a powerful search language, and out-of-the-box apps." Swan concluded, "Splunk is driven to help solve some of IT's biggest challenges and to do so with a version that's free."

Splunk Free User Praise

"I downloaded the free version of Splunk, installed it on my reverse proxy server, setup a directory to monitor, and was able to instantly pull up the direct number of web-mail hits for the past 13 months." said Matt Smith, Applications Systems Analyst, St Dominic's Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. "I did this all in under 10 minutes. That's amazing."

Splunk 4: Free vs. Enterprise License

Splunk Free is available now. The free download automatically includes all the Enterprise features of Splunk 4 for 60 days and lets users index 500 megabytes of data per day. After 60 days, or anytime before then, users can convert to a Splunk Free license or purchase an Enterprise license to continue using the expanded functionality designed for multi-user enterprise deployments and get full enterprise support.

Following is more detail on the features and functionality of Splunk Free and Splunk Enterprise.

Typical Free User Profiles:

  • Anyone: Search, analyze and report on any of your IT data including bulk-loaded, historical data
  • Developers: Analyze application logs, trace logs and performance metrics to troubleshoot dev and production environments
  • Sysadmins: Troubleshoot across every tier of your infrastructure - physical servers, virtual machines, applications and networks
  • Security Analysts: Identify and investigate attacks, incidents & anomalous events

Comparing the Free and Enterprise Licenses

Feature Description Free Enterprise  
Indexing Volume Indexing volume per day 500MB/day Unlimited
(depends on license)		  
Universal Indexing Index any IT data source      
Ad-hoc Search Search and investigate anything in your IT data      
Reporting Create ad-hoc reports, visualize and analyze your data      
Knowledge Mapping Add knowledge about events, fields, transactions, patterns and statistics to your IT data      
Personal Dashboards Create rich dashboards by combining pre-defined searches, charts and reports      
Enterprise Dashboards Create fast and scalable dashboards for use across the organization, with role based access controls and per user customization
   
Monitoring & Alerting Schedule searches for continual monitoring and alerting on events simple and complex
   
Distributed Deployments Support for distributed search, load balancing and failover
   
Forwarding & Receiving Support for forwarding and receiving data from other Splunk indexers      
Access Controls Support for user authentication and role-based access controls
   
Works with Free Apps Supports free Apps distributed by Splunk and Partners      
Works with Premium Apps Supports premium Apps distributed by Splunk and Partners
   
Developer APIs Fully documented, programmatic interface to integrate IT data into any business or development workflow      
Community Support Access to full Product Documentation, Forums and IRC for answers to basic technical questions      
Enterprise Support Direct access to our Customer Support Team by phone, ability to manage cases online (tailored support levels also available)
   

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk lets you search, alert, report and analyze data from all your applications, servers and network devices in real time to troubleshoot problems, investigate security incidents and report on compliance controls in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 1,300 enterprises, service providers and government organizations in 64 countries use Splunk to realize new levels of service quality, reduce IT operations costs and mitigate security risks in record time. The world's leading technology providers and over 50 system integrator, value-added reseller and managed service provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with Splunk. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at www.splunk.com/download