A large, enterprise-class application involves many servers. As the number of servers increases, the challenges to troubleshoot or investigate any application failure increases multifold.

Thus, there is a need to integrate different sources of data for a consolidated view – to help improve developers/testers’ productivity and quickly resolve application/environment issues. Moreover, the solution needs a browser-based interface as opposed to providing administrative privilege, remote access to the server. Splunk captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations. Read More…