The reason people pay outrageous prices for Splunk is you can get some pretty decent burgers out of sewage if you know what you are doing, and from personal exp

The reason people pay outrageous prices for Splunk is you can get some pretty decent burgers out of sewage if you know what you are doing, and from personal experience the results can be totally game-changing if you are stuck with a mishmash of different log formats and have to support a large distributed application.