**** UPDATE - 10/31/08 ****
Hey all,
I’ve updated the app to version 1.8.
The only fix in this version is a bug with multiple datacenters.
Version 1.8 should now work for an unlimited number of datacetners.
( Thanks to Stephen for finding and letting me know )

As always feel free to bug me if the app has any problems.
e.

**** UPDATE - 10/10/08 ****

Hey all,
I updated the latest release - 1.7 - to fix a shutdown bug.
Turns out that in prior releases when Splunk was shut down that the VMWare app kept running.
This release not will terminate the VMWare app when splunkd goes away.

If you would like to test or run without splunk you can pass in the arg.
java -jar splunk.jar –standalone

** see instructions below on how to run the above command **
As usual, drop me a line if you have any questions.
Good luck with 1.7

**** UPDATE - 09/16/08 ****

Thanks to more testing i have found and fixed a few critical bugs.
Updated APP version 1.6 >> here <<

Everyone has their favorite customer.
I have one too and he is the CTO of a very cool IVR/VoIP platform. His name is RJ Auburn

Around here is synonomys with filing 34 bugs between sunday 9PM when we push bits to the site and 9AM when we get in to the office. I dont mean the usual the UI-is-off-by-10-pixels but complex indexing or distributed search bugs. Well, sometimes is its a trivial thing we missed, but usually he is usually pushing splunk to its limits. Its not often that a CTO and “industry expert” is the one to personally put splunk through its paces - but it’s RJ is like that and gets his hands dirty - and splunk is the better for it.

RJ and Voxeo are one of a few, but quickly growing, number of companies that are using splunk in a multi-tenant environment. This means using splunk to to collect data across multiple tenants in a hosted environment and then using splunk for searching and reporting on a per customer basis. Often the output of the searches/reports is rendered for the customer do they can see what is going on within the service. Customer dashboards and activity reports are a common usecase for splunk. Below are some of the images from the voxeo service:

I’m looking for some help.
I’ve built a VMWare app for splunk and in the process of doing the same for Xen. These Apps use the VMWare and Xensource API’s to index everything about the VM environment. When combined with splunk instances running within the guest OS you get a very comprehensive historical picture. I’m curious are there any splunk customers out there using VMWare or Xen? I’m looking for usecases so that i better understand how to configure the apps. I’d be curious to know what types of information would be useful to capture and what types of searches would one want to perform. Both Xen and VMWare have so much data available that configuration could be complicated. I’m trying to narrow it down to several useful out of the box configurations. If your have any thoughts comment here or email me at erik at splunk dot com.

Thanks
e.