Splunk Monitors Social Networks With Ease
By Matthew Nickasch on Fri, 10/24/08 - 4:30pm.Most of us, whether we would like to admit it or not, are likely members of some sort of social network. Social networking sites are some of the hardest-hit, highest-demanded, and media-rich sites on the Internet today, and for good reason. They have hundreds of millions of users from across the globe, and are expected to be always available - 24/7/365. What do some of the most popular social networking sites have in common? They use Splunk to search, organize, correlate, and analyze logging information from hundreds of sources.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2008, Splunk announced new social network customers, including MySpace, Hi5, and Ning.
From the Splunk press release:
"As the country's most trafficked site on the Internet, MySpace users and advertisers expect MySpace to be up and running at all times," said Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of technology, MySpace. "To achieve this, our IT operations team works to understand any potential failures before they go into production. Splunk lets us quickly search all of our IT data in a single place and proactively monitor for recurring problems, ensuring our users get the highest level of service and availability."
Splunk is more than a search engine, or a resource and event aggregation tool. With the ability to coordinate, organize, and simply display complex information from many sources, it has proven to be an invaluable tool to organizations small and large.
Major system, network, and performance problems are unfortunately like catastrophic disasters that occur outside of IT. It usually takes a chain or sequence of events to trigger a disastrous result. With a tool like Splunk, it's very possible to focus and analyze a sequence of events from different sources to quickly troubleshoot or prevent an impending problem.
For more information about this press release, or for more information and demonstrations of the Splunk product, visit their website.
- About Considering Convergence
- Matthew Nickasch is an independent consultant and analyst in the IP communication and convergence fields. His current and previous consulting experience includes systems architecture, virtualization, telecommunications, and converged networks for the financial, education, and healthcare industries. In addition to his consulting responsibilities, he has been active in the research realm, recently publishing and presenting on topics including routing protocol security and ERP and transactional database auditing. While his interests include directory services and corporate compliance, Nickasch's focus is on converged networks and IP communications.
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