Splunk, the framework for analyzing logs that’s grown into a broad-scale data analytics platform, has gained a new array of tools for .Net developers.

Splunk aims to solve that problem with its search engine, which indexes any kind of log files in real time. The engine uses free-form indexing to match fields between any freely formattedfiles.

Splunk is a free-format search tool that helps you correlate time- and date-based events across a huge number of logs — Apache, FTP, security, MTA, DBMS, and so on.

Splunk may have started life as an IT Ops business, but it in pretty short order it added a strong element of security capability to its repertoire. After all, the best way to spot that something ...

Splunk made searching through logs super easy and was a breakthrough for IT teams,” he said. "Splunk was designed for enterprise-scale and flexibility from the get-go," Fort said.

Splunk's software is a specialized data-mining and search tool that digests log files and organizes information so administrators can see how a particular event affects different programs. For ...

This helps customers centralize their log data in Splunk Enterprise, as well as correlate metric and trace data in observability with those logs. Splunk is also ramping up customers’ ability to ...

In the age of big data, log management is becoming an absolute necessity, as developers, operations, and, yes, DevOps have to deal with and process huge amounts of machine-generated data.

Both Splunk Log Observer and Splunk Real User Monitoring are currently available in beta for customers, with general availability coming in the future. TechTarget has more on this story here.

It's fair to say that I learned a lot about log management through Splunk. A few years ago, I used Splunk for a variety of computer security applications, most notably to collect and forward ...