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> The Community Edition is limited to 2GB/day of ingest (real ingest, not indexed data) and should handily cover any home use and most smaller I.T. and Security
by e12e 8y ago
> The Community Edition is limited to 2GB/day of ingest (real ingest, not indexed data) and should handily cover any home use and most smaller I.T. and Security shops.
So it's not so much "a free splunk alternative" as it is "a system with slightly different free tier than splunk"?
From
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/software/pricing.html https://www.splunk.com/en_us/software/pricing.html
> Splunk® Free (...) Scale up to 500 MB data per day
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoGiven its prominent position (currently #4 on the HN front page right now), I would guess people just blindly upvoted the post without reading.
- floren 8y agoYes, that's a fair summary. We chose 2 GB/day because our own home installations have stayed under that when we ingest netflow, DNS lookups, collectd hardware stats, and syslogs. We think it's enough to be actually useful to a home user, especially in combination with our ingesters (https://dev.gravwell.io/docs/#!quickstart/downloads.md https://dev.gravwell.io/docs/#!quickstart/downloads.md)
- dang 8y agoOK, we'll take "free" out of the title above.
- big-endian 8y agohttps://dev.splunk.com/page/developer_license_sign_up/ https://dev.splunk.com/page/developer_license_sign_up/ You can grab a 10GB/day Dev license for Splunk for free. IANAL, but should be suitable for home use. Lasts a few months, and renewals are free.
- krageon 8y agoYou are then chained to a renewal process and the whim of the agency giving out those licenses. That isn't freedom, that is servitude.
- bloopernova 8y agoEvery single time we have to renew our Splunk license, it's a hassle. Unfortunately Splunk's installation process is much more streamlined and junior-sysadmin-friendly than ELK, at least in our limited view. I need to look again at ELK to see if someone has created or improved the log input UI and indexing UI. Just something that lets you select log locations and types on a client in a web UI "somewhere", and something similar on the server to perform various operations for indexes and other such stuff.
- thaeli 8y agoGraylog2 (the open source version) is batteries-included and a very easy install. Definitely a lot easier than ELK stack.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 8y agoSumologic also has a 500mb/day free tier. I pay for Sumo and really like it.
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