Splunk now offers a way to easily build charts and graphs that reveal trends in machine-generated data
Splunk continues to enhance its flagship machine data search engine so it can be used by business analysts and managers, in addition to its typical audience of system and network administrators.
The newly released Splunks Enterprise 6 includes new capabilities to easily visualize data, as well as a framework to build Web applications based on Splunk data, said Sanjay Mehta, the company’s vice president of product marketing.
General business managers may also have a lot to learn from machine data, Mehta explained. For instance, for marketing executives, Splunk could provide a list of what types of smartphones are being using to access an organization’s Web application, giving a manager a better idea of which phones to optimize for.
The Splunk search engine made its namefor being able to easily search through log files and other forms of machine-generated data, …