[colug-432] Splunk Storm

[Tom Hanlon]

Colug, 

I saw the title to this and I thought to myself .... 
" is this a combination of splunk with Nathan Marz's from Twitter, Storm product" 
https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

Sort of in the same space. I wonder if Splunk added the word 'Storm' to a product to muddy the context for customers ? 

Anyhow..
I do think that Nathan Marz's Storm is an interesting project. 

I teach hadoop, so along with ingestion of data, often with flume or some other log collection tool, folks often want something close to near real time event processing. 

There is esper, there is splunk , there is storm. 
http://esper.codehaus.org/

As far as Open Source (apache licensed) Nathan Marz's Storm is getting a lot of attention, not sure how much adoption. 

Thanks for the tip on splunkstorm. Are the features identical to commercial splunk ? I might want to mess around with Splunk so I can get a feel for the features. I tend to talk about it in vague terms, I think I cover the basics, but a little hands-on experience would be nice. 

Thanks, 

Tom 



On Dec 28, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:

> 
> 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.
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Tom Hanlon
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