Open Source Rivals to Splunk in InfoWorld
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Saw this one last week and thought that it was really interesting. I've used Splunk but was unaware of these competitors. They look to have some amazing features and for free, they could really offer some extreme value. Splunk is expensive and a ton of effort to make useful. It's fine for a small shop as likely they will not top its size limit but these products offer a lot of flexibility and no limits, ever.
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I didn't even know there were competitors to Splunk.
Have played around with their free version, will be interested to see how the others work. -
I've heard of Splunk but are too busy to look it up now. Refresh me if you could.
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From what I recall, you setup a splunk server and send all of your log there from your other servers.
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@Katie said:
I didn't even know there were competitors to Splunk.
Have played around with their free version, will be interested to see how the others work.Was news to me too. Really interested in these.
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@ajstringham Splunk will take your log files (along with other data types) and parse the data in a multitude of customizable ways.
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@Katie Ah ok. Very handy.
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@ajstringham It is very handy! But steep learning curve. I attended a demo conference at the beginning of January up in Orlando. It was very classy and very informational.
They know how to throw a good shin-dig. There is an annual user conference in Las Vegas in October, I think. Analogous to Spice World.
