> I’ve never used this piece of software (and their web site is remarkably uninformative about what it does, besides transform my enterprise), but from the comm

> I’ve never used this piece of software (and their web site is remarkably uninformative about what it does, besides transform my enterprise), but from the comments it looks like some kind of search engine. It is an 'enterprise' log aggregator, storage system, and log search engine/alert generation engine. One sets one's Java code (remember: "enterprise") to stream log output to splunk, and splunk handles receiving, storage, alert generation from programmed patterns matching, and archived log data search. > It wouldn’t be too surprising to have a bunch of heuristics that try to extract meaning from unlabeled strings. That is a very accurate description of just what it does.