What is Splunk?
Okay—so what is Splunk, anyway? How do you explain this product to your peers, friends, and family in a way that is easy to comprehend without watering down its awesome capabilities? Here's how I explain it, with an introductory setting and then increasing levels of powerful uses—until I notice their eyes starting to glaze over, at which point I stop and summarize again: "It's like Google for all kinds of machine data!"
Every company will have tens, hundreds, or maybe thousands of application and web servers, databases, and network devices such as switches, routers, and firewalls; all kinds of sensors, and so on—and all of these create log files or data streams that record their activities and statuses over time. Now, imagine ...
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