Splunk is the engine for machine data. It was developed to solve the machine data challenge and collects, indexes and harnesses all of an organization's unstructured, time-series machine data... Physical, Virtual and Cloud. Splunk can read data from virtually any source, such as network traffic, web servers, custom applications, application servers, hypervisors, GPS systems, stock market feeds, social media, and preexisting structured databases. Splunk delivers a real-time understanding of what's happening and deep analysis of what's happened across your IT systems and infrastructure. It turns your machine data into the insights you need to make informed decisions.

Splunk Enterprise is changing how organizations manage, secure and gain operational intelligence from IT. By enabling organizations to search and analyze their machine data from
a single location in real time, they can now troubleshoot application outages, investigate security incidents, and gain new levels of insight in seconds or minutes, not hours or days. By using Splunk they are seeing dramatic improvements in user productivity.