Overview of Splunk
Splunk is a fast engine and provides lightning-fast results. You can troubleshoot any issue by resolving it with instant results and do an effective root cause analysis. Splunk can be used as monitoring, reporting, analyzing, security, and event management tool among other things. Splunk takes valuable machine-generated data and converts it into powerful operational intelligence by delivering insights through reports, charts, and alerts.
Splunk is used for extracting value out of machine-generated data. It can be used as a data mining tool for big data applications. Splunk can easily and effectively handle big data with no decrease in performance. The finest part of Splunk is that it does not need any database to store its data as it extensively makes use of its indexes to store the data.
Why is Splunk so widely used?
Splunk is the most widely used engine for working with machine-generated data. Nowadays machine data is being prepared at breakneck speeds. Most people are unaware but some of the biggest organizations in the world are parsing huge volumes of machine data just to stay ahead of the competition. So Splunk is their major selection to convert machine data into operational intelligence. Splunk successfully and effectively captures, indexes, and correlates data from a searchable repository all in real-time and generates insightful graphs, reports, dashboards, and alerts.
Since machine-generated data will be the next frontier of big data, a huge number of companies are investing heavily in making sense out of it and converting it into a business advantage. Splunk’s mission is to make all the machine data easily accessible by identifying the patterns, analyzing the metrics, diagnosing the problems, and providing actionable insights. Splunk is also extensively used for security and compliance applications.
Features of Splunk
Here in this section of the Splunk Blog, we will discuss some of the top features of Splunk.
=> One of the biggest strengths of Splunk is real-time data processing.
=> The outcome data for Splunk could be in any format like CSV, JSON, and others.
=> You can effortlessly search and investigate a particular result with Splunk.
=> It lets you repair or troubleshoot any condition of failure for improved performance.
=> You can detect or monitor any business metrics and make an informed decision.
=> It is easier to visualize and analyze the results through powerful dashboards.
=> You can examine the performance of any IT system with Splunk tool.
=> Splunk even allows you to absorb Artificial Intelligence into your data strategy.
Advantages of Splunk:
1) Allows multiple data formats like CSV, JSON, XML
2) Does the hard work for us i.e converting machine data to a human-readable format.
3) Splunk creates customized alerts to serve our business purpose.
4) Searching on the based on queries is pretty simple.
5) We can create dashboards to analyze and visualize our search results.
6) Can transport the log content to our Personal computers.
7) Structured framework plugins and integrating with any tool that needs monitoring is pretty easy.
8) Technical support for the Splunk is very quick as they have a dedicated staff for that.
Disadvantages Of Splunk
Splunk has a learning curve. They have large-scale & extensive documentation but it isn’t intuitive and some features are buried pretty deep. We have an onsite expert who holds bimonthly meetings to answer questions in a group forum.
Splunk is expensive and probably not for smaller startup companies. The pricing is ranked and is subscription-based so if you start to ingest a lot of data, look out. It can eat into most of your IT budget and Splunk by itself doesn’t handle all the Day 2 operations that are needed.
Learning is slow. Initially, it takes time to understand the reports and pattern it finds out of the log. But it’s worth learning it.
Splunk users that collect the data from applications can sometimes hang and need to be restarted. The quantity of traffic that can be collected has maximum caps based on your subscription.
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