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 Professional Server 2.1, unveiled this week, marks another milestone in error log collection and detection. The Splunk search engine now can scale across ...

Splunk on Monday announced the release of Splunk 2.1, a new version of their log and IT data search engine. The new version adds distributed search capabilities, performance improvements and more.

Who would see the potential in bringing a Google-like search interface to log files? An IT person, of course — someone who not only recognized the wealth of information hidden in logs and the need for ...

Splunk 4 includes additional scalability, usability and dashboard features for enterprise IT managers looking to more quickly troubleshoot performance problems with the enterprise IT search tool.

A Silicon Valley start-up called Splunk believes it will ease overtaxed system administrators by automating a frequent and important but mundane task: retrieving information from the numerous log ...