Splunk on Monday announced the release of Splunk 2.1, a new version of their log and IT data search engine. The new version adds distributed search capabilities, performance improvements and more.

Start-up looks to automate important but mundane task: retrieving data from the numerous log files kept by a computer's software. Splunk’s software is a specialized data-mining and search tool that ...

Splunk has grown into a full-blown analysis ecosystem. But the log analytics system, which has a cost-by-usage price tag, is feeling pressure from low- and no-cost alternatives. To broaden Splunk’s ...

In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads. NPR metrics analyst Sondra Russell described the ...