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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">At my place of work, we ship Splunk
      embedded in appliances. <br>
      I gather that it is a closed source log handler which <u>can talk
        SYSLOG protocol</u> and presses its affinity for CEF (Common
      Event Format). CEF strikes me as a good thing because SYSLOG
      traffic can be way too free-form for enterprise processing. (Just
      too little structure for huge volumes of log traffic to be
      processed effectively without something like CEF.) <br>
      <br>
      I found Splunk's gigabyte licensing to be annoying. A customer can
      bump into the wall and lose traffic. (I forget the details of the
      failure mode.) <br>
      <br>
      -- R; &lt;&gt;&lt;<br>
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      On 10/14/2016 12:36 PM, Evan Miller wrote:<br>
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      <div style="white-space:pre-wrap">Splunk is widely used at enterprise level. It is closed-source and generally licensed on a by-the-gigabyte basis. I've deployed it myself in a production environment and it does a great job. 

That said on the open source side something like Graylog or ELK (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana) is a common comparison to the features and function of Splunk. 


Hope that helps!

Evan</div>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:33 PM Jeff Frontz &lt;<a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jeff.frontz@gmail.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jeff.frontz@gmail.com">jeff.frontz@gmail.com</a></a>&gt;
          wrote:<br>
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            <div class="gmail_msg">Anybody heard-of/using splunk?  Is it
              a widely-deployed platform?</div>
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            <div class="gmail_msg">I try to keep a list of upcoming
              events that are "code-centric" -- things that would be of
              interest to individual contributors (vs. the pointy-haired
              and the marketeers) in IT/software/systems -- and send
              them out at the bottom of code camp email blasts.  Usually
              I can suss-out the purely marketing/spammy ones and
              recognize the good stuff.  However, "splunk" is something
              I'm not familiar enough with, so...</div>
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            <div class="gmail_msg">I need some feedback on whether the
              upcoming Columbus stop of "Splunk live" (<a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://splunklive.splunk.com" class="gmail_msg"
                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://splunklive.splunk.com">http://splunklive.splunk.com</a></a> ) is
              worthy of inclusion in my list.</div>
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            <div class="gmail_msg">Oh, just for reference, here's my
              current list (please let me know if you are aware of any
              others):</div>
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            </div>
            <div class="gmail_msg">
              <ul
style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:arial;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;line-height:21px"
                class="gmail_msg">
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-townhall-tickets-28060566911"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">BLK Hack Tech Townhall</a> is Oct 17</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><span
                    style="background-color:rgb(255,215,0)"
                    class="gmail_msg">new</span> <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-wEkWWOXK/events/234246784/"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">José Valim (creator of Elixir &amp;
                    Devise) at CRB</a> on Oct 17.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://columbuscodecamp.com/"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">Columbus Code Camp</a> is Oct 22.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://coderetreat.org/events/global-day-of-coderetreat-2016-columbus-oh-usa?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">Global Day of Coderetreat</a> is Oct
                  22.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.govtech.com/events/Ohio-Digital-Government-Summit.html?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">Ohio Digital Government Summit</a> is
                  Oct 25-26.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://www.thegdex.com/?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">GDEX - Game Developer Expo</a> is
                  Oct 28-30.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-ohio/welcome/?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">DevOpsDays Ohio</a> is Oct 31-Nov 1.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.up.co/communities/usa/columbus/startup-weekend/9968?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">Startup Weekend Columbus</a> is Nov
                  11-13.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://ohiodevfest.com/?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">Ohio DevFest</a> is Nov 19.</li>
                <li class="gmail_msg"><span
                    style="background-color:rgb(255,215,0)"
                    class="gmail_msg">new</span> <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://qaorthehighway.com/?referer=CCC2016"
                    style="color:rgb(51,102,153)" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">QA or the Highway</a> is Feb 7,
                  2017.</li>
              </ul>
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              Thanks<br class="gmail_msg">
              Jeff</div>
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