Splunk is a powerful, scalable search engine and data store
Splunk's API empowers you to build applications that search terabytes data, retrieving raw records, and calculating advanced statistics. You can install it on your laptop, or on a server, or on a thousand servers. Splunk can be applied to any textual data, structured or not, and people use it for things as diverse as searching and analyzing all corporate email, twitter tweets, web analytics, telecoms call records, and earthquake data.- Free, with certain restrictions, and installs in under 5 minutes.
- Scales to trillions of records, by using a distributed map-reduce architecture.
- Optimized for time-coded data.
- Schemaless, so it can handle any text data.
- Dynamically extracts key-value pairs from your data as needed.
- Supports powerful statistical, reporting, and alerting commands.
