randolph_carter

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   by randolph_carter 17y ago

   I enjoy http://bit-player.org - it's a blog by Brian Hayes, who writes on computing science for American Scientist magazine (but is currently on sabbatical from the magazine, hopefully not from the blog).
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   by randolph_carter 17y ago

   Also not wanting to sound like a mouthpiece, but choice of log management system is a very interesting topic to me... scalability is only one concern and may not trump everything. We actually looked at both LogLogic and Sensage during our i
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   by randolph_carter 17y ago

   Thanks for the additional context... like one of the other posters mentioned, I think once your target organization has evolved beyond the capabilities of the existing products in this space, the knowledge and analytics built-in to the prod
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   by randolph_carter 17y ago

   To corroborate this, it has not been our experience that Splunk doesn't scale. We have a ~40GB/day environment and according to support can scale that to ~100GB/day on a single quad-core server with SAN back-end, license permitting. The lag
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   by randolph_carter 17y ago

   Out of curiosity, can you be more specific on what scalability, analytics, and ease-of-use improvements LogSearch offers vs. Splunk in particular? We use Splunk internally and have not found it to be significantly lacking in these areas but