InfoWorld first looked at Splunk in a preview of the Splunk Server, where it was dubbed “like Google for log files.” That simile is especially apt: Google freed us from the need to learn the ...

Plumbing the depths of log files and other metadata, Splunk helps IT find the telltale patterns that reveal what's really going on More and more IT systems generate a glut of metadata — log files, ...

Splunk Professional Server 2.1, unveiled this week, marks another milestone in error log collection and detection. The Splunk search engine now can scale across ...

Start-up looks to automate important but mundane task: retrieving data from the numerous log files kept by a computer's software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

We've got a pretty sizable Splunk deployment going, about 1.5TB/day of application logs coming in. There is discussion about starting an initiative to set some enterprise-wide standards for logging ...

In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads. NPR metrics analyst Sondra Russell described the ...