Splunk Definitions:
- Splunk is a software environment to give search, analyze and event to machine-generated data collect from the websites, applications, sensors,devices etc.,It create for your IT environment and business.
- Splunk is an advanced,scalable and potent technology that system can be stored indexes and searches log files.It also search the machine-generated data to give operational intelligence.
- The below image will help you how to relate Splunk collects data.
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Example for Splunk:
- To report real time health condition.
- The patient’s health record and analyze patterns in the Delve deeper.
- When the patient’s health degrades to be Alarms/Alerts for both the doctor and patient.
Splunk advantages:
- It work can be moved as the ‘Google’ for log files.
- Simpler terms to be searched with the use of Search Processing Language (SPL).
- If the Splunk file system to be store the data directly that means it does not require any back-end or any database
- It doesn’t against any single point of failure to be happened.
Some of the additional components that separately and collectively perform the major operations:
| Components | Tasks Performed |
|---|---|
| Deployment Modes | Standalone deployment and Distributed deployment, on the basis of which the searches are performed. |
| Splunk | Responsible for indexing and processing massive amounts of data in real-time. |
| DataStore | Stores and compresses the raw data. |
| Bundles | Store the configuration of the input, accounts of users, applications, add-ons, etc. |
| Modules | Add new features by altering or creating processors and pipelines. |