Wading through Splunk documents concerning things which have deprecated over time is a pain, as no timeline can be found that explains things clearly. Case in point: Hunk. Hunk used to be a Splunk product. Legacy documentation exists. But a history of Hunk? Tough luck. Here's what I've pieced together so far: In 2013 (June), Splunk introduced its virtual index technology that enabled the seamless use of the entire Splunk technology stack—including the Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)—for interactive exploration, analysis, and visualization of data stored anywhere, as if it were stored in a normal Splunk index. Hunk was the first product to exploit this innovation, delivering Splunk’s interactive data exploration, analysis, and visualizations for Hadoop. Splunk quickly opened this API to NoSQL and other data stores (reference required). In 2014, MongoDB partnered with Splunk to offer a MongoDB results provider for Hunk. By late 2016, Hunk’s functionality was completely incorporated into the Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Add-On (Splunkbase 3311) and Splunk Enterprise itself (versions 6.5+). The question then is what is the status of the Hunk App for MongoDB (Splunkbase 1810), one of only three MongoDB-related entries in Splunkbase? Shouldn't this app be retired? And what of the eternal question of hooking MongoDB databases up as data sources for Splunk? Shouldn't that be handled by a simple add-on or app? The latest (June 2019) post on that question points to a Unity JDBC driver for MongoDB from a vaguely suspicious URL. ... View more

(I know this isn't a question, but since the contact page only leads to Sales or to phone numbers, I'm using this platform instead) On the https://www.splunk.com/getsplunk/cloud_trial page, the "Splunk Cloud FAQ" link points to http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/SplunkCloud/FAQs/FAQs but that page does not exist. You end up bounced back to http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation. A search of the Documentation pages yields no hits for "Splunk Cloud FAQ". The closest match I was able to find is https://www.splunk.com/en_us/legal/terms/splunk-cloud-terms-of-service.html ("Splunk Cloud Terms of Service FAQs"), which is a partial hit (it does not discuss the free trial FAQs). ... View more