Can you use Splunk as a Market Scanner / Dashboard ?

xandman

xandman

It seems that Splunk can prove useful given that:

1) Simple data upload and indexing
2) A simple query language
3) Visualizations and Dashboards that can be set to periodic/ real-time.
4) Ability to guess your source data or create custom mapping for fields.

Yet, I see that most implementations are for Network hardware and Security monitoring.

Can anyone share your insight and experience?

Thanks.
 
xandman said:
It seems that Splunk can prove useful given that:

1) Simple data upload and indexing
2) A simple query language
3) Visualizations and Dashboards that can be set to periodic/ real-time.
4) Ability to guess your source data or create custom mapping for fields.

Yet, I see that most implementations are for Network hardware and Security monitoring.

Can anyone share your insight and experience?

Thanks.
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*waves* Hi Xandman, you're back! I've missed your little dog with the bondage ball. :-)
 
Yah, they're a (minor) ex-competitor of the big data companies I used to work for. Good for aggregation and analysis on log files, and relatively lightweight on system resources; not so much with validation, cleaning, or any sort of serious analytics use. More of an end-user tool with lots of pre-built stuff. Not saying they're bad, it's just a relatively narrow market segment.

Would it be good for market analysis? Well, you could poke at it - they've got a free version - but I seriously doubt it. It's neither oriented toward anything like that nor, IMO, flexible enough.

If you want a dashboard with a full-power back end, take a look at Databricks. They've also got a free version, but it's definitely enough to build whatever you want (and you can scale out if you decide to.)

I'll put it this way: my job required having familiarity with essentially all major products in the Big Data space, and Databricks is what I use exclusively for any analytics at scale.
 
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