Are you planning on using Splunk? Why? If you are not sure, consider the following.

Today, in this world of Machine data. and constant stream of information, there is always a need to take advantage of this massive amount of bits that are collected. And Splunk, can help you at that. Among many things, it does the following:

-collects and indexes data at massive scale, from wherever it is generated, regardless of format or source.
– provides its functionality as a cloud service.
– allows users toquickly and easily monitor, search, analyze and report on their data all in real-time.
– Doesn’t rely on inflexible databases.
– is easy to deploy, use and scale. Whether on premises or in a public, private or hybrid cloud.
– provides Hunk , Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, for Big Data environments that use Hadoop for cheap batch storage.

Find out more here and see a product overview here.

Splunk is used for IT Operations, Web analytics, Predictive analytics, Internet of Things, Computer security, Regulatory compliance among many things.

You can access a variety of products from Splunk as shown below.

Give Hunk a try too when you have a chance.

And find out here why the name Splunk 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9cCOZqoD6E

Sources
What is Machine Data?
What is Operational Intelligence
Spunk Youtube channel
Splunk documentation
Splunk SDK
Videos