Publisert: 24. mars 2011
Splunk 4.2 Delivers New Levels of Operational Visibility
New Version Adds Real-‐time Alerting, Enhanced Support for Global Deployments and Improved User Productivity
Splunk 4.2 Operational Intelligence
By Dan Kusnetzky | March 18, 2011, 2:44am PDT
Steve Sommer, CMO of Splunk, and Sanjay Mehta, senior director of product marketing, stopped by to introduce me to the improvements and enhancements that Splunk 4.2 is offering. As usual, the company is taking a different approach to gathering data, analyzing that data and then teasing out operational intelligence. Splunk’s approach is both clever and interesting.
What Splunk has to say about Splunk 4.2
Splunk 4.2 new features include:
- Real-time alerting. Provides immediate notification and response for events, patterns, incidents and attacks as they occur.
- Universal Forwarder. New dedicated lightweight forwarder delivers secure, distributed, real-time data collection from thousands of endpoints with a significantly reduced footprint.
- Easier and faster. New ways to visualize data, quick start guides for new users, integrated workflows for common tasks and up to 10 times faster search experience in large-scale distributed deployments.
- Easier management of Splunk. New centralized deployment monitoring and license management facilitate the management of multiple Splunk instances from a single location.
Snapshot analysis
I’ve watched this company since a time before they publically launched their first product. I’ve find their approach to a difficult problem, the problem of keeping ahead of what is going on in a complex system environment, refreshing and quite interesting.
It is increasingly difficult to know what’s going on in a complex, multi-tier, distributed computing environment both with enough detail to discover problems and quickly enough to prevent those problems. Splunk is a supplier that has approached that problem from a different direction with positive results. Their approach is to use Google-like searching technology to make sense of application, application framework database engine, operating system and virtualization tool logs.
Over time, the company has offered clever tools to manage systems, virtual systems and cloud-based systems. It would be worth your time to visit their site and view their demonstration videos.
Daniel Kusnetzky, Distinguished Analyst and Founder of Kusnetzky Group LLC, is responsible for research, publications, and operations. Mr. Kusnetzky has been involved with information technology since the late 1970s. Most recently Mr. Kusnetzky was Vice President of Research Operations for the 451 Group. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President of Corporate and Marketing Strategy for Open-Xchange, Inc., Vice President of IDC's System Software research and was responsible for research and analysis on the worldwide market for operating environments and virtualization software. During his 12 years with IDC, he was one of the most quoted analysts in the world. Prior to his time with IDC, he spent 15 years with Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was responsible for program and product management, and marketing in the areas of client software, server software, and clustered and networked systems