https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/splunk-what-is-purpose/m-p/136740#M7523 <P>Ok, I'm guessing that you are trying out the free version of Splunk, and didn't actually buy a license. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> <P>Splunk is a tool for searching, correlating, reporting and alerting on (mainly) log data. Think of it as a powerful analytical tool, which also has capabilities to store data in its own internal format for a specified amount of time. Actually, you can decide to have different retention periods for different types of data. </P> <P>It is not a backup tool, but it is commonly used for fulfilling internal/external requirements for centralized logging, i.e. to have important logs moved away from the systems where they were generated. So in a sense, the logs are 'backed up' to a secondary system, but usually logs would never be restored to the originating system in the event of a crash/attack/whatever. </P> <P>I would guess that you could find the basic introductory videos on splunk.com, and a lot of detailed administrative tips on youtube.</P> <P>/K</P> Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:14:34 GMT kristian_kolb 2015-06-05T07:14:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/splunk-what-is-purpose/m-p/136739#M7522 <P>hello ,</P> <P>1.we are confused that is it monitoring tool or backup application means that it can backup data on secondary storage.<BR /> 1. is there any video from where we can see that how to splunk easily <BR /> Actually we want to learn how to use splunk .</P> <P>Please help me ASAP .</P> Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:33:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/splunk-what-is-purpose/m-p/136739#M7522 swati_sharma 2015-06-05T06:33:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/splunk-what-is-purpose/m-p/136740#M7523 <P>Ok, I'm guessing that you are trying out the free version of Splunk, and didn't actually buy a license. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> <P>Splunk is a tool for searching, correlating, reporting and alerting on (mainly) log data. Think of it as a powerful analytical tool, which also has capabilities to store data in its own internal format for a specified amount of time. Actually, you can decide to have different retention periods for different types of data. </P> <P>It is not a backup tool, but it is commonly used for fulfilling internal/external requirements for centralized logging, i.e. to have important logs moved away from the systems where they were generated. So in a sense, the logs are 'backed up' to a secondary system, but usually logs would never be restored to the originating system in the event of a crash/attack/whatever. </P> <P>I would guess that you could find the basic introductory videos on splunk.com, and a lot of detailed administrative tips on youtube.</P> <P>/K</P> Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:14:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/splunk-what-is-purpose/m-p/136740#M7523 kristian_kolb 2015-06-05T07:14:34Z