Log Management

Limited, Inflexible Tools with Siloed Visibility

Meeting compliance mandates has caused vendors to build log management solutions that focus on storage and canned reporting, but don't make the data useful for day-to-day operations, security, and the deluge of one-off requests from auditors. Existing log management solutions are too narrow, having been built to use log data for compliance, when in fact log data contains an important source of truth critical for troubleshooting issues and supporting broader business objectives. And why stop with the log data? Application logs and other machine data also contain important data which traditional log management solutions simply miss.

How are you managing access to and analysis of your log data today? Can you access all your logs from one central location? Can you quickly search and analyze your logs to troubleshoot issues, meet compliance requirements and investigate security threats?

Collect, Use and Analyze All Your Log Data in Real Time

Customers are turning to Splunk to improve how they use and analyze log data. Splunk automatically indexes all the data, including complex multi-line application logs, enabling you to search on all the data without need for custom connectors, and without limitations inherent in database schemas. Once in Splunk, you can quickly search and report on this data - and Splunk interprets the data as you search providing a more complete context. The result is a more flexible and complete approach to using and analyzing log data, enabling you to diagnose issues and troubleshoot security incidents faster, and providing repeatable and affordable compliance. With Splunk, your log management capabilities are now more powerful, flexible, and no longer limited to "select" data sources or a "fixed" set of reports.

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Splunk Benefits

  • Investigate security threats faster reducing risk and the attack window by searching and analyzing all your logs, audit trails and any other security relevant data across your entire IT infrastructure from one place.
  • Reduce operational complexity and cost by performing log management using the same infrastructure as change monitoring, operational monitoring and security without the need for additional agents.
  • Understand your security posture by generating comprehensive reports in seconds across all your logs, audit trails and other security relevant data.
  • Meet requirements to capture any and all logs, even application logs, in real time.
  • Provide clear chain-of-evidence, even with application logs.
  • Pass compliance audits with minimal effort by quickly generating standard and ad-hoc reports across all logs, audit trails and other machine data from one place.
  • Improve your Mean Time to Investigate and Resolve issues (MTTI/MTTR) by searching and analyzing across your log files, including your application logs, audit trails and other machine data to efficiently troubleshoot problems.
  • Reduce operational complexity and cost by performing log management using the same infrastructure as change monitoring, operational monitoring and security without the need for additional agents.
  • Perform log analysis across system boundaries by centralizing all your logs and other machine data and provide the ability to rapidly search, alert and report on this data.

Log Management Using Splunk

Splunk indexes logs in any format from any data source, in real time. Unlike syslog or other network-based log appliances, you can even capture new events in application log files as they happen. You can define how long to keep data and activate Splunk's data signing to fulfill compliance-mandated log retention controls.
All of your IT staff - sysadmins, security analysts, developers and auditors - can search this data to troubleshoot problems and investigate security incidents - from the application tier down to the network.
Users with different expertise can add their knowledge by classifying and tagging events such as specific error codes, identifying and naming fields such as IP addresses or transaction IDs, breaking down silos of knowledge.
Users become proactive by saving and scheduling searches to monitor and alert on specific events, patterns and thresholds.
Users can also set up their own reports and dashboards to summarize logged activity, such as firewall traffic reports, errors and warnings by component, and user login activity. As users become accustomed to searching logs with Splunk, they'll start reviewing logs routinely and noticing anomalies and trends that they wouldn't pick up with traditional monitoring.

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