Discovered a great site for sysadmins today - adminfoo.net. They had some nice things to say about using Splunk. Thanks, Bryan!

Since Splunk launched the first IT search engine in August, early adopters have told us how great search is for their production IT data. Logs are the most obvious data to search, but there’s also system configuration files, monitoring data, and anything else you can index. I’ve never seen so much excitement about [...]

Thanks to a lot of hard work in engineering we now have one Linux installer that should work on every Linux 2.6 kernel+ distribution, and any Linux 2.4+ kernel that has been compiled with NPTL (Native Posix Threads Library) support. If you weren’t able to install before because you didn’t run a recent Red [...]

Splunk today is just the beginning… Splunk published its roadmap a few weeks ago and it’s online for anyone to vote and comment on. Tell us what you think of the features we’ve thought of, and give us a few more suggestions of your own!