what does Splunk do?
curious what splunk does? looked af their site but wasnt really clear...do they have a good enough future to grow your career?
Right. What was I thinking. TC = 350
Splunk makes an absolutely phenomenal tool for querying structured (or partially structured) data (typically logs). It's phenomenally easy to use and pretty powerful, too. It's been many years since I've used it, but it's like a database query language that works like Linux pipes and can easily give you things like histograms, percentiles, time slicing, etc.
Unlike any other other tools or databases or existing systems, Splunk has the unique ability to correlate sources of data from anywhere across your infrastructure, which can give you one view into what’s really happening so that you can start to plan, make better informed decisions, and then ask more intelligent questions about what is happening in your business. Splunk is a map-reduce implementation that takes unstructured data, any kind of data you want to put into it, and process it faster than anything else available today, provide analytics, transform the data, and kick off events on other applications.
How is it different from Elastic search stack? Genuine question
Similar use cases but different approaches schema on read vs schema on write, one was designed for log storage and time series data, the other for fast search of almost any kind of data. Splunk is commercial with a freemium offering wheres Elastic has a open source base with commercial features on top.
TC or Gtfo