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 ...

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 ...

Splunk doesn't have all the features of the top competitors, but pairs good value with an active development community It’s fair to say that I learned a lot about log management through Splunk. A few ...

In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads. NPR metrics analyst Sondra Russell described the ...