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 ...

Plumbing the depths of log files and other metadata, Splunk helps IT find the telltale patterns that reveal what's really going on More and more IT systems generate a glut of metadata — log files, ...

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 ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Splunk derives its name from the American term for potholing or caving. Spelunking Spelunkers dive ...