Splunk is a platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data, widely used for enterprise log management and operational and security analytics. Founded in 2003 and now part of Cisco, it serves large organizations that need to index and query high volumes of log data. It can be self-hosted as Splunk Enterprise or consumed as Splunk Cloud, with ingest- and workload-based pricing and no perpetual free tier, placing it in the premium tier. It provides live search, alerting, and index/retention tiers, and holds SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2003
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Log management
- Free tier
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Live tail / search
- Yes
- Alerting
- Yes
- Retention tiers
- Yes