Spluk Advantages - Why to use splunk?

Below are some of the key advantages of using Spluk Training which will help you in understanding key features of splunk and why should you go for it :)

Splunk Facts : -

•  Identify and resolve issues upto 70% faster 
•  Reduces costly escalations by upto 90%
• SPlunk converts complex logs to visual graphs and reports resulting simplified analysis,reporting and troubleshooting

• No separate database requirements like oracle or SQL as splunk stores all data in its index
• supports any format and any amount of data -enables centralized log management

• Simple to implement and scale
• Continually index all of your IT data in real time.
• Automatically discover useful information embedded in your data, so you don't have to identify it yourself.
• Search your physical and virtual IT infrastructure for literally anything of interest and get results in seconds.
•  Save searches and tag useful information, to make your system smarter.
• Set up alerts to automate the monitoring of your system for specific recurring events.
• Generate analytical reports with interactive charts, graphs, and tables and share them with others.
• Share saved searches and reports with fellow Splunk users, and distribute their results to team members and project stakeholders via email.
• Proactively review your IT systems to head off server downtime and security incidents before they arise.
• Design specialized, information-rich views and dashboards that fit the
• wide-ranging needs of your enterprise.
• Trusted by wide customers over the globe

Not limited to IT-can be used where big data is involved -only limitation is your  mind :)

Splunk linux installation step by step instructions:

Step 1: Download Splunk from below link(64bit package if applicable)

http://www.splunk.com/goto/Download_4_2

Step2: To install Splunk Enterprise on a Linux system, expand the tar file into an appropriate directory using the tar command.

 To install into /opt/splunk, use the following command

tar xvzf splunk_package_name.tgz -C /opt

Step3: Verify that the file is readable and executable by the the Splunk user. If needed change access using below command

chmod 744 splunk_package_name.rpm

Step 4: install the Splunk RPM in the default directory /opt/splunk using below command

rpm -i splunk_package_name.rpm

To install Splunk in a different directory, use the --prefix flag:

rpm -i --prefix=/opt/new_directory splunk_package_name.rpm

Setp5:Accept license using below command

./splunk start --accept-license

Step6: Enable boot start

./splunk enable boot-start

You splunk is ready for use now :).You can access it now using your favourite browser.

Note:- Splunk is not compatible with internet explorer and having some known issues.For splunkplease use any other browser loke Mozilla or Google Chrome.Default splunk url for your installation will be  as below:

http://localhost:8000

you can use hostname or ip address instead of localhost in above url.