Splunk is one of the best commercial log management solutions. It can handle terabytes of log data very easily. Over time, it has added many additional capabilities and is now recognized as a full-fledged leading platform for operational intelligence. Splunk is used to monitor numerous applications and environments.
It plays a vital role in monitoring any infrastructure and application in real time and is essential for identifying issues, problems, and attacks before they impact customers, services, and profitability. Splunk's monitoring abilities, specific patterns, trends and thresholds, and so on can be established as events for Splunk to look out for. This is so that specific individuals don't have to do this manually.
Splunk has an alerting capability included in its platform. It can trigger alert notifications in real time so that appropriate action can be taken to avoid application or infrastructure downtime.
Based on a trigger of alert and action configured, Splunk can:
- Send an email
- Execute a script or trigger a runbook
- Create an organizational support or action ticket
Typically, Splunk monitoring marks might include the following:
- Application logs
- Active Directory changes event data
- Windows event logs
- Windows performance logs
- WMI-based data
- Windows registry information
- Data from specific files and directories
- Performance monitoring data
- Scripted input to get data from the APIs and other remote data interfaces and message queues