Jai Soma
Jan 10, 2023
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CommentsWhat is Splunk?
It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
Splunk is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Predict and prevent problems with one unified monitoring experienceStreamline your entire security stack with Splunk as the nerve centerDetect, investigate and diagnose problems easily with end-to-end observability
Splunk Pros & Cons
Pros of Splunk
- ✓Alert system based on custom query results
- ✓API for searching logs, running reports
- ✓Ability to style search results into reports
- ✓Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
- ✓Dashboarding on any log contents
- ✓Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
- ✓Rich GUI for searching live logs
- ✓Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
- ✓Granular scheduling and time window support
- ✓Query any log as key-value pairs
Cons of Splunk
- ✗Splunk query language rich so lots to learn
Splunk Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Splunk?
Logstash
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.
Apache Spark
Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.
SLF4J
It is a simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks allowing the end user to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.
