Splunk is the most-used server for collecting data from different sources, indexing that collected data, analyzing the index data, and preparing reports based on the indexed data. The source of data may be from any environment. The source may be in a structured format or an unstructured format. Splunk provides some intelligent algorithms to understand the indexed data that are used in security, IoT machine logs, and application logs and to provide data analytics.
Splunk Data Sources
Splunk provides a wide range of plugins to support various resources. For example, to understand Windows event logs, it provides one plugin. For understanding Ubuntu machines logs, it provides different plugins. Based on the analysis of logs, Splunk will generate the number of times that the operating system is loaded, the average CPU load in each session, and how many different users logged into the system. It will generate the reports and it can also generate dashboard for live data streaming.