[colug-432] Splunk Storm

[Rick Hornsby]

We've been ramping up our use of Splunk at work for the last several months.  Someone recently mentioned that there was a free "cloud" splunk.  It really only took me about 30 minutes to get it set up with the little cable modem monitor I wrote in ruby/bash and get it collecting data and sending it over to splunk. 

I started using rrdtool, but it was being stupid.  I need to learn splunk better for my job anyway, so I thought this might be good way.

If anyone is interested: https://www.splunkstorm.com

There is also a free splunk server you can download and run yourself.  I think you get 500MB/day in the free version.  (Splunk's license model is around the log volume/per day.)  This cloud version just happens to do most of the server-side work for you already, and I think you get 1GB of storage total for free.