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 ...

A Silicon Valley start-up called Splunk believes it will ease overtaxed system administrators by automating a frequent and important but mundane task: retrieving information from the numerous log ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...