Splunk and MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy 10 has announced a new connection to Splunk. I suppose that Splunk is not very popular in the world of BI. Most people who have heard about Splunk think that it is just a platform for processing logs. This is both true and false. Splunk was derived from the world of spelunking, because searching for root causes in logs is a kind of spelunking without light, and Splunk solves this problem by indexing machine data from a tremendous number of data sources, starting from applications, hardware, sensors, and so on.
What is Splunk
Splunk's goal is making machine data accessible, usable, and valuable for everyone, and turning machine data into business value. It can:
- Collect data from anywhere
- Search and analyze everything ...
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