Welcome back to my Splunk series. Let’s continue our journey with Splunk. Splunk 101 What data can Splunk ingest? First, let us take a view of Splunk at 1000 feet. One thing that Splunk strives for is can ingest any data. Splunk software collects and indexes data… Read More »
I have decided to start writing again. I will start with the three leading big data platforms and add more as time allows. As you can see by the title, we will dig into Splunk today. What is Splunk? Splunk is a software technology used for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and visualizing machine-generated data in real… Read More »
Why should you virtualize Splunk? I get asked that question all the time. So let us first look at a typical Splunk installation on bare metal servers. What information do we even need to collect to size a Splunk? We need to start with the following questions: How much data are you going in ingest… Read More »