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I've worked at two organisations that use Splunk at huge scale. There really is no good alternative when you get really big and want a managed service.
by mdoms 5y ago
I've worked at two organisations that use Splunk at huge scale. There really is no good alternative when you get really big and want a managed service.
- jms703 5y agoThis. Also, when you have bespoke log solutions and engineers leave, you end up with unsupported solutions. This may be Twitters 4th logging solution IIRC. Plenty of people know splunk. Loglens, not so much.
- saryant 5y agoLoglens, there’s a word I hope to never hear again.
- orlovs 5y ago+many. There are plenty good Enterprise software with bad rep. You can spend a lot of engineering talent to rebuild what is already solved or just buy boring tech. Splunk by definition is boring and with Twitter scale makes sense. Twitter is not too big, its decently sized.