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Last year in December, we announced the acquisition of Cloudmeter – a company with technology that captures data directly from the network traffic – a rapidly growing source of big data.
Today, I’m stoked to announce the general availability of the Splunk App for Stream v6.0, which stems from that acquisition.
So, why is wire data (data from the network) important? Wire data has the benefit of capturing all data in real-time – it is the communication vehicle for applications and systems to talk to each other, making it a very authoritative source of critical information. It serves a broad range of analytics across different use cases; it is non-intrusive with no impact to workloads and it can be collected without the need for instrumentation and tagging of applications.
The Splunk App for Stream passively captures and sends wire data into the Splunk platform. We’ve always been able to capture wire data. What we’re introducing with the Splunk App for Stream is a simple and elegant mechanism to capture the data. Let me explain why I think this approach is unique and absolutely fantastic.
We have proven beyond doubt that we’re the leading Big Data platform for Operational Intelligence. With the addition of wire data, this only elevates our status. Bernd Harzog, analyst from The Virtualization Practice and CEO and founder of APM Experts, wrote a really nice article about this release and how we’ve now extended the capabilities of the Splunk platform with the addition of wire data. Thanks Bernd.
Wondering how to get started. This is free folks! This App can be downloaded on Splunk Apps right away.
Before I sign off, I also want to introduce you to the Streams Examples App. In order to get you started on how to explore wire data, captured by the Splunk App for Stream, we’ve also authored a Stream Examples App that you can download from Splunk Apps. This App contain searches, examples and instructions for how to enable several use cases using data captured by the Splunk App for Stream. It will cover scenarios like looking for security relevant conversations, looking at a Web Shopping Cart for funnel analysis, using full payload data to track Shopping Cart revenue, analyzing SIP conversations, looking at Application and Database performance metrics, and more. Once you install the App for Stream, I highly recommend you download this as well – it will accelerate the value you get from the data captured by the App for Stream.
Long post, I know, but there is just so much to say about this App. If you have any comments, please do not hesitate to reach out. We’re here to help you and we want to do a good job of it. Let us know what you think and how we can help.
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pbalakrishnan
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