Splunk Put Into Innovative Use By Npr For Web Analytics

In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads. Splunk offers what it calls a search engine for machine data. It was originally built to parse log files, or the files programs and hardware generate to document their transactions, errors and other operational information. By coordinating the timestamps of messages from different applications and hardware, Splunk allows system administrators

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