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Splunk Enterprise is a software product for enabling enterprises to collect, search, organize, analyze, and visualize data that is gathered from various system components. Splunk Enterprise ingests log and streaming data from a wide variety of sources, including websites, applications, sensors, and devices.
Splunk Enterprise indexes the data stream from each data source and parses it into a series of individual events that you can view and search. The Splunk web interface can be used to analyze the data further. The Splunk search language, lookups, macros, and sub searches reduce hours of tedium to seconds of simplicity. Tags, saved searches, and dashboards offer both operational insights and collaborative vehicles.
Splunk provides operational insights for any industry and nearly any use case, based on several core capabilities of the platform that include the following.
Collect data from virtually any source and location. Convert logs to metrics and freely analyze and correlate data without the limitations of conventional database structures. Import data from relational databases and data warehouses for a complete business view.
The powerful Splunk search processing language supports all your search needs—from the simplest to the most sophisticated. Point-and-click analysis brings insights to business users. Then, rich visualizations make results understandable and actionable for all audiences.
Set thresholds to monitor for incidents or proactively signal potential issues. Use alerts to launch applications or custom actions. Interact with your data with custom dashboards that can be shared or embedded into other applications as PDFs.
The Splunkbase repository includes numerous apps and add-ons from Splunk and from third parties that offer customizable tools for many different use cases and data sources. And Splunk Premium Solutions combine real-time analytics and rich features to manage your security posture, IT operations and more.