Introduction to Splunk

Splunk is a software technology which is used for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and visualizing the machine-generated data in real-time. It can monitor and read different types of log files and store data as events in indexers. This tool allows you to visualize data in various forms of dashboards.

Benefits of Splunk

• Offers enhanced GUI and real-time visibility in a dashboard

• It reduces troubleshooting and resolving time by offering instant results.

• It is a best-suited tool for root cause analysis.

• Splunk allows you to generate graphs, alerts, and dashboards.

• You can easily search and investigate specific results using Splunk.

• It allows you to troubleshoot any condition of failure for improved performance.

Features of Splunk

• Accelerate Development & Testing
• Allows you to build Real-time Data Applications
• Generate ROI faster
• Agile statistics and reporting with Real-time architecture
• Offers search, analysis and visualization capabilities to empower users of all types

More Important features of Splunk are:

• Splunk is a software which is used for monitoring, searching, analyzing and visualizing the machine-generated data in real time.
• Splunk reduces troubleshooting and resolving time by offering instant results.
• Splunk is available in three different versions are 
• 1)Splunk Enterprise 2) Splunk Light 3) Splunk Cloud.
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• 1)Universal Forward (UF) 2) Load Balancer (LB) 3) Heavy forward (HF) 4) Indexer (LB) 5) Search head (SH) 6) Deployment Server(DS) 7) License manager (LM) are essential components of Splunk tool.

• Important applications of Splunk are:
•  1)Interactive map 2) Promotional Support 3) Performance Monitor 4) Real-time feedback 5) Dashboard, and Payment process.
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• The most important best practice of using Splunk is that you should use test index so you can quickly perform the test.
• Famous companies like Cisco, Bosch, IBM, Motorola, Adobe, Visa are using this tool.