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August 15, 2007
Welcome
So much has happened at Splunk during the last couple of quarters.
We launched our new 3.0 product that simply loaded with great new features and capabilities. We've added some really impressive new partners Netcordia, TriGEO and Uptime, bringing the total ecosystem to more than 30 OEM, VAR and SI partners. We had a banner second quarter adding 94 new customers, and upgrading 17 existing customers to higher data indexing levels, bringing our total number customers to more than 350. We crossed the 100,000 user download mark, which is a major milestone for us after only 18 months of product availability. We've grown our staff by more than 40 percent and we're hiring more super smart people all the time.
It's an exciting time at Splunk. And we want to keep you informed about our product upgrades, company news, tips and tricks and just generally make sure you know we want to hear from you.
Happy Splunking,
Michael Baum, CEO
What's New
Come and get it. Splunk 3.0 is ready for download.
We announced GA on August 6th at LinuxWorld in our hometown, San Francisco. More than 2500 users downloaded Splunk 3.0 during the beta, applying IT Search to problems beyond the scope of log management and troubleshooting.
New interactive filtering and dashboard features in Splunk 3.0 let you apply the full power of IT search to security, compliance and performance management. New data input options help customers see further than logs into configurations, messages and metrics across all the components of a modern IT infrastructure.
Get your free download of Splunk 3.0 today!
Is Your SysAdmin a Rockstar?
Nominate Your IT Hero for SysAdmin of the Year 2007.
The SysAdmin of the Year Award shines a spotlight on the technical superstars behind the scenes working tirelessly to troubleshoot, problem solve and fight fires to keep your business running smoothly. It's easy - simply nominate your company's IT Rockstar, and they'll be entered to win fabulous prizes - including a MacBook Pro, an Apple iPhone, and a guitar.
We kicked of the contest on SysAdmin Day, July 27th and we have 100 entries so far. The contest ends on October 12, 2007 so you still have time to recognize those tech superstars who achieve great things daily from the smallest server room to the biggest datacenter.
Tips & Tricks
Christina Noren, VP Product Management & Support
Did you know you can get Splunk to run monitoring commands like top, iostat or vmstat on your OS for you on a schedule, then graph the output to get performance charts?
For example, we're indexing top every 5 seconds on our demo server.
Follow this link to see the raw output as splunk search results:
The below search works on the top output and uses some of 3.0's new advanced commands to pull apart the tabular output of top then graph statistics by time.
Note: you can log in to the demo server as guest/guest.
Out and About
Data Center World, will take place on Septmember 16-19, 2007 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Dallas. Michael Baum, Splunk CEO, will talk about Infrastructure Management Strategies to Manage the Next Generation Data Center.
And, come see us at Interop New York, October 22-26 at Javits Center. Stop by booth 667 to check out Splunk 3.0 and pick up one of our cheeky, new t-shirts.
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