about Splunk Backend?

[4Name]

Hello,

I have several questions about splunk's backend to which I was unable to find a clear answer :

1) What is Splunk Based on?
It's a NoSQL model but is it based on something existant or is it fully developped by Splunk?

2) Hos does Splunk handles logs' new data?
How does it knows where to stop the crawling? or does it crawls the entire files at every check?

Thanks for your answers!

[ddrillic]

The second question is about an interesting subject. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.5/Data/Howlogfilerotationishandled is fascinating.

[ChrisG · Accepted solution]

Splunk indexing and storage technology is proprietary and is not based on open source packages.

For your second question, Splunk software uses a tailing processor to follow incremental changes to log files. For more information about the indexing process in general, read How indexing works in the Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers manual.

[4Name]

Thanks a lot ChrisG! 🙂