Operational Intelligence and Splunk
The IT systems and infrastructure that run your business generate massive volumes of data every millisecond of every day. This machine data contains a definitive record of all user transactions, customer behavior, machine behavior, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. It's also dynamic, unstructured and non-standard and makes up the majority of the data in your organization.
Nearly 3,300 customers in over 75 countries use Splunk to harness the power of their machine data for application management, IT operations, cyber security, compliance, web intelligence and business analytics. With Splunk they achieve new levels of visibility and insights that benefit IT and the business. We call this Operational Intelligence.
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What's Different About Machine Data?
All websites, communications, networking and complex IT infrastructures generate massive streams of machine data every second of every day, in an array of unpredictable formats that are difficult to process and analyze by traditional methods or in a timely manner.
This machine data holds critical information on user behavior, security risks, capacity consumption, service levels, fraudulent activity, customer experience and much more.
Splunk was founded specifically to focus on the challenges and opportunity of effectively managing massive amounts of machine data. Splunk provides a unified way to organize and to extract actionable insights from the massive amounts of machine data generated across diverse sources.
A Single Solution for Operational Intelligence
Here's how using Splunk and your machine data can drive significant benefits for your organization.
Search and Investigation
Using Splunk, organizations identify and resolve issues up to 70% faster and reduce costly escalations by up to 90%. Splunk is one place to find and fix problems, and investigate incidents across all your IT systems and infrastructure - your applications, websites, servers, networks, virtual machines, security devices, and more. This alone eliminates much of the "human latency" experienced in the trenches.
Proactive Monitoring
Monitor your IT systems and infrastructure in real time to identify issues, problems and attacks before they impact your customers, services and revenue. Splunk keeps watch of specific patterns, trends and thresholds in your machine data so you don't have to. Trigger notifications in real-time via email or RSS, execute a script to take remedial actions, send an SNMP trap to your system management console or generate a service desk ticket.
Operational Visibility
See the whole picture, track performance and make better decisions. Visualize usage trends to better plan for capacity; spot SLA infractions, track how you are being measured by the business. Do all of this using your existing machine data without spending millions of dollars instrumenting your IT infrastructure.Real-time Business Insight
Make better-informed business decisions by understanding trends, patterns and gaining Operational Intelligence from your machine data. See the success of new online services by channel or demographic, reconcile 3rd-party service provider fees against actual use, find your heaviest users and heaviest abusers, and more. Because machine data captures every behavior, the possibilities are game changing. You'll find the lead times to get to this intelligence dramatically less than other solutions - measured in hours instead of months.
Splunk In Action
Nearly 3,300 customers across the globe rely on Splunk to gain Operational Intelligence from their machine data. Popular use cases for Splunk include:
- Application Management: using Splunk to troubleshoot across the complete application stack from one place and monitoring for performance degradation.
- Security and Compliance: using Splunk to provide rapid incident response, correlation and in-depth monitoring across all data sources.
- IT Infrastructure & Operations Management: using Splunk to proactively monitor and ensure uptime, and to rapidly pinpoint and resolve problems when they occur.
- Web Analytics & Business Analytics: using Splunk to gain visibility and intelligence on customers, services and transactions; spot trends and patterns of behavior in real time.
Start anywhere and expand from there - that's the power of Splunk.
Delivering Operational Intelligence
Splunk does something no other product can. It gives you real-time insight and intelligence into what is happening and deep analysis of what has happened across your IT infrastructure and the systems that run your business.
Splunk delivers the following core capabilities fundamental to providing Operational Intelligence:
- Real-time visibility - the ability to search, correlate, monitor and alert on events as they happen across your end-to-end IT environment.
- High-performance search and navigation - find what you're looking for anywhere across your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure quickly and easily. Search across billions of events in seconds on a single commodity server.
- Powerful historical analytics - analyze important trends, statistics and metrics about any aspect of behavior. Custom dashboards help you analyze the behavior of your customers, users, transactions, applications, web servers, app servers, networks, and more. Splunk captures the full scope of behavior, so you can focus on what's important.
See Results Immediately - Without Risk
Use Splunk to fix problems faster, monitor and improve service levels, mitigate security exposure and risk, and provide real-time insights into the trends and behaviors of your customers, services and systems.
Find out about the rapid ROI customers achieve with Splunk, request a product demo, or download Splunk for free.