Listen to Arjun Ananth, one of InRhythm’s rockstar DevOps crew, give a great presentation on an intro to Splunk.
From Arjun:
“I spoke about how to get started with Splunk by first introducing it’s components, how they work and how we can utilize Splunk to collect log details from our servers. I also spoke about key functionality such as creating alerts, reports and dashboards.
To conclude I presented an overview of Splunk and it’s capabilities, followed by a brief comparison of it to other open source monitoring tools.”