You've probably turned to log files to identify a problem's source before. But which log file do you look in, and what format is that log file in? Manually searching millions of lines of data just isn't feasible. Splunk 2.1 speeds the task by using keywords to let you quickly search through all your enterprise's logs. Splunk is available for download for just about any platform except Microsoft Windows. Currently, the Splunk server can be installed on FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS X and Sun Solaris machines. The vendor is working on a Windows version, but does not have a timetable for delivery. Competing products lock you into a specific OS. LogLogic, for example, is available only as a turnkey device and Tenable's Log Correlation Engine only runs in Red Hat Enterprise.
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