About Splunk

Splunk originated in 2003 and was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision for making machine-generated big data easily accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. This (machine-generated) big data can be from a wide range of sources, including websites, servers, applications, networks, mobile devices, and so on, and it can span multiple environments and even be cloud-based.

Splunk (the product), runs from both a standard command line or an interface that is totally web-based (which means that no thick client application needs to be installed to access and use the tool) and performs large-scale, high-speed indexing on both historical and real-time data.

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Now you can also subscribe to the Splunk Cloud service, and get a dedicated Splunk deployment that is hosted in Amazon Web Services.

Splunk does not require a restore of any of the original data, but it stores a compressed copy of the original data (along with its indexing information) allowing you to delete or otherwise...