Splunk

Help

Call the Help Desk at 217-244-7000 or send email to splunk-support@illinois.edu.Customers also have the opportunity to join a Users Group specific to the service.

Description

Originally a log aggregation and analytics tool, Splunk has evolved in to a market-leading "machine data" analytics platform, ready for research applications with Machine Learning (ML) and commonly used as a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. Develop reports and dashboards; build alerts and launch automated responses.

Cost

Splunk is charged monthly, but pricing is based on daily ingest of data @ $72/GB. If daily ingest is 1 GB, basic service price will be $72/month. Default retention period is 90 days. Incentives (from Security) and enhancements (for example, longer retention) are available. For more information, visit the Splunk Service Pricing page.

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Splunk helps you collect, aggregate, normalize, and search across a wide variety of data sources. Build visualizations and dashboards to communicate through your data. Use Machine Learning for predictive analysis and to identify anomalies. Build alerts and automations so you can detect, react to, prevent, or minimize threats.