Splunk is the IT Search Engine

Can you imagine trying to find things on the internet without a search engine? Now you can navigate the complexity of your data center with IT Search. Splunk is the IT Search Engine that indexes and lets you search, navigate, alert, and report on IT data from any application, server, or network device. Securely access logs, configurations, scripts and code, message, traps and alerts, activity reports, stack traces and metrics across thousands of components, from one place, all in real time.

SAN FRANCISCO – September 11, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced $25 million in Series C funding led by Ignition Partners of Bellevue, Washington.
This funding round follows Series A investment of $5 million in December 2004 from August Capital and Sevin Rosen, and $10 million Series B in January 2006 led by JK&B Capital.
Total: $40 million funding , It's been 3 years old company (2004 funding first )

Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. Splunk indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it.

Our IT Search innovations take advantage of the time series nature and highly unstructured form of IT data. By making it possible for humans to interact with terabytes of machine data, Splunk is fundamentally changing how we manage, secure and understand increasingly complex computing environments.

Arm your network engineers, system administrators, security and compliance analysts, developers, customer support and help desk staff with an up to the moment understanding of what’s happening in your IT infrastructure. Splunk is easy to download, install and use - and it's very powerful.

Splunk has not built an application. Nor is Splunk merely selling software.
Splunk has created a software enabled platform that continues to be extremely broadly applicable.
Is Splunk mission critical when it comes to maintaining availability of large scale enterprise systems? Yes.
Is Splunk invaluable in the fight to maintain the security of your data center? Yes. Does Splunk uniquely simplify the process of data compliance? Yes.
Can Splunk help you dig into your data and analyze it like no other solution? Yes. But, frankly, that's just the tip of the iceberg -- once you are able to query individual pieces of data across your entire data center in real time, the applicability of the platform is limited only by the creativity of its end users.