Splunk

Splunk captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.It is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.Splunk is a software mainly used for searching, monitoring, and examining machine-generated Big Data through a web-style interface. Splunk

Advantages of Splunk

• • Analyzes the aggregate of logs from a big service cluster
• • Finds real-time logs and with faster speed
• • Generates report and alerts for the desired search
• • Provides enhanced GUI and real-time visibility in dashboard in various formats
• • Provides quick results by reducing the time to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• • Works like a monitoring, reporting and analysis tool and provides insights
• • Does not require other dependent services (like database)
• • Requires minimum HW resources
• • Easy to setup and low-cost maintenance
• • Accepts any data type including .csv, JSON log formats etc.
• • Monitors AWS infrastructure
• • Uploads and indexes log data from a local PC to Splunk directly