[brlug-general] splunk

Dustin Puryear dustin at puryear-it.com
Wed Jun 13 15:35:49 CDT 2007


Yeah. Not to mention that there IS NO ACCESS CONTROL with the free one.
You need the commercial version for that.. well, almost. What we do is
firewall Splunk off and then put an Apache proxy in front of it
configured to authenticate/authorize against LDAP. :)

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Shannon Roddy wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>> We use Splunk. It's free for up to 500 MB/day of traffic.
> 
> Hmm... I didn't know that (as i run off to look at my log host daily volume).
> 
>> There are some alternatives, but they don't really rival commercial
>> products like Splunk.
>>
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>>   "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>   "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
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>> Download your free copies:
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>> Joshua Frugé wrote:
>>> I don't know much about splunk (www.splunk.com
>>> <http://www.splunk.com>).  Someone just sent me an email and said make
>>> it work on freebsd 64, and that's how I found out about it.  My question
>>> is does anyone know of/uses an open source/free equivalent to splunk?  I
>>> think our main use for this is the logging stuff.    We may buy it, I
>>> don't know...just curious if anyone knows of any alternatives.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joshua
>>>
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