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Not so - Splunk has a very sophisticated index for huge amounts of data, and a rather fancy DSL for analyzing it. I've looked at it in some depth as one of our
by sk5t 15y ago
Not so - Splunk has a very sophisticated index for huge amounts of data, and a rather fancy DSL for analyzing it. I've looked at it in some depth as one of our products (http://zetetic.net/software-combine http://zetetic.net/software-combine) does log aggregation (and does a much better job with Windows and SNMP than does Splunk), but Splunk is not at all a trivial piece of software.
- Retric 15y agoWhen you said DSL I head Regex. Honestly, your competing with inhouse scripts people spend a few weeks / year maintaining. Which is not to say you can't make a lot of money doing so. Ideally, your saving people significant time writing these scripts, but tossing out buzzwords just alienates your users.
- sk5t 15y agoSplunk's query language is not like regex - it's somewhat more like SQL or LINQ, with groupings, aggregates, pivots, etc. It is definitely a DSL. I am not a Splunk developer or serious user of it, but you greatly underestimate the problem space to suggest this class of products address the same problems solved by even a very skilled scripter's scripts.