clojure-uk 2020-05-19 | Slack Archive

splunk has one of those "wtf" websites doesn't it... i've heard of it in relation to log analytics, but after a quick perusal of their website i am left with no real idea of what it is, although i'm confident it will both accelerate my innovation and scale my impact

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dominicm14:05:24

two zingers in a row

jasonbell14:05:22

I’ve got a Kafka Connect worker that can happily DDoS a Splunk server in no time 🙂

jasonbell14:05:53

(Not on purpose I do add)

folcon14:05:54

What is it? Other than some quasi not safe for work thing…

jasonbell14:05:53

Splunk is insanely expensive.

rhinocratic14:05:08

Morning.

Aleksander14:05:16

morning!

rhinocratic14:05:40

I thought that the object of Splunk was to get all the marbles into your opponent's tray. The website is indeed a triumph of the marketer's art :face_with_rolling_eyes:. I had a vague memory that it was a monitoring tool, but now I'm even less certain. The careers page just screams "over-30s need not apply".

mccraigmccraig15:05:04

oh god, i hadn't seen the careers page, and now i can't unsee it

folcon15:05:17

I swear pages like this make me believe that somewhere out there, someone discovered that jumping skills are strongly correlated with engineering ability…

Ben Hammond15:05:45

it's an indexing system to search the kind of unstructured data that gets written by distributed app log files

dharrigan15:05:13

At work we use kibana

dharrigan15:05:24

backed, of couse, by elasticsearch

dharrigan15:05:18

our log files are in JSON formated, captured by (file)beats

dharrigan15:05:27

and sent to elasticsearch

mccraigmccraig15:05:36

same here, kibana/ES, but with capture by fluent-bit's k8s collector

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