Universally Indexing Business Data
By the title of this entry, you may be thinking that there is some new capability within Splunk to index other types of data. That’s not the intention. From its roots, Splunk was used to index and search on IT data. It still is. However, because of the flexible nature of the software to index any type of time series text data, customers using Splunk do not restrict it to indexing only IT data. From the beginning Splunk was designed to universally index data from a variety of sources as long as the data was eventually ASCII text in representation.
Due to this inherent capability, Splunk can index data that is not necessarily meant for consumption by IT staff and has…
