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May 21, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Interop NOC Splunk Day

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Brian and Cathy are partaking of Padre's real estate generosity as well as me--hey he's rich and it's a big house. That's cool on the one hand because Brian makes fancy coffee every morning. That's uncool on the other hand because Cathy tortures me every morning--before I'm really ready. Hey, she's sweet but she really is the incarnation of evil.

Today, however, all three of them were dressed identically in black t-shirts with 'Splunk' one one side and an almost-witty sentence on the other. You might think 'Splunk' refers to the sound Cathy's shoe makes when it rebounds off my skull, but it's actually a tres-cool IT log aggregator. (The semi-witty sayings on B&C's shirts didn't do anything for me, but I later saw a cute one: "Splunk: Taking the SH out of IT.")

What is Splunk, really? Don't think "knowledgebase for IT." The site looks like that, but it's actually a log manager. This thing takes all your logs--and I mean ALL your logs--and indexes them. But not just for keyword searching, it also aligns them temporally and with a graphic representation so you can see and track trends and then drill down to specific log entries right off the graphic.

There's a free version and an enterprise jobbie, so check 'em out.

Posted by Oliver Rist on May 21, 2007 04:12 PM

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