Splunk vs ELK: The Log Management Tools Decision Making Guide | Takipi Blog

Splunk vs ELK: The Log Management Tools Decision Making Guide | Takipi Blog

By Alex Zhitnitsky - February 23, 2016 February 23, 2016 12 min read Splunk vs the Elastic Stack – Which Tool is Right For You? Much like promises made by politicians during an election campaign, production environments produce massive files filled with endless lines of text in the form of log files. Unlike election periods, they're doing it all year round, with multiple GBs of unstructured plain text data generated each day. In most cases, the act of manually going through plain log files, grepping all over the place, severely limits the value you can extract from them. Some might even say that it's… borderline insane . In this post, and in the light of the new Elastic Stack v5 , we're taking a practical look at 2 of the most popular log management solutions: Splunk and ELK (Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana) to help guide you through the questions you'll need to ask yourself in order to make the right choice. Let's get started. New Post: Splunk vs ELK:

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