Gaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off between depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can’t get the full, integrated picture across mixed systems with sufficient clarity. Splunk’s approach to this has been to index and make searchable the flood of log files being emitted from IT systems, then aligning the time stamps to draw out business intelligence inferences about actual IT performance.
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What Are All Those Logs Trying to Tell You?
Posted by: Dana Gardner March 6, 2008 05:00 AMGaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off between depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can’t get the full, integrated picture across mixed systems with sufficient clarity. Splunk’s approach to this has been to index and make searchable the flood of log files being emitted from IT systems, then aligning the time stamps to draw out business intelligence inferences about actual IT performance.