What Is Splunk?
Splunk is a tool used for logging, analyzing, reporting, visualizing, monitoring, or searching the machine data in real time.
Machine data is information that is generated by a computer process, application, device, or any other mechanism without any active intervention from humans. Machine data is everywhere, and it can be generated automatically from various sources like computer processes, elevators, cars, smartphones, etc., and generally, such data is generated in forms of events in an unstructured form.
