Building splunk has become very democratised in today's day and age.
Back in the day, logging, metrics, event collection etc. was a hard problem that they solved. Esp. when there weren't any simple distributed storage operators.
They have been a cockroach in the orgs, surviving every downturn. As a dev, you might hate it, CISO and CIOs love it. Orgs, often mandate it. The way they dominated the market is via creating CEF formats, integrations. It is more than a logging solution right now. It is an XDR, threat analysis platform etc.
This acquisition is going to be interesting with app dynamics+splunk and others, it feels like there is a larger play here for Cisco.
I don't think the value that splunk have is transitive to ES or grafana. It is, its own thing.
Back in the day, logging, metrics, event collection etc. was a hard problem that they solved. Esp. when there weren't any simple distributed storage operators.
They have been a cockroach in the orgs, surviving every downturn. As a dev, you might hate it, CISO and CIOs love it. Orgs, often mandate it. The way they dominated the market is via creating CEF formats, integrations. It is more than a logging solution right now. It is an XDR, threat analysis platform etc.
This acquisition is going to be interesting with app dynamics+splunk and others, it feels like there is a larger play here for Cisco.
I don't think the value that splunk have is transitive to ES or grafana. It is, its own thing.