| Type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder(s) | Michael Baum, Erik Swan, Rob Das |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key people | Godfrey Sullivan (CEO) Erik Swan (CTO, Co-founder) Rob Das (Chief Architect, Co-Founder) Dave Conte (CFO) Tom Schodorf (SVP Field Operations) Sheren Bouchakian (VP HR) Lionel Hartmann (VP Technical Support) Brian Haynes (VP EMEA) Robert Lau (VP APAC) Christina Noren (SVP Solutions) Raman Kapur (VP Finance) Steve Sommer (VP Marketing) Bill Gaylord (VP Business Development) |
| Revenue | $66 Million |
| Employees | 360 (2011) |
| Website | www.splunk.com |
Splunk[1][2][3] is enterprise software used to monitor, report and analyze the machine data produced by the applications, systems and infrastructure that run a business. Splunk lets users search, monitor and analyze machine-generated data via web-style interface.[4] Splunk captures indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts and dashboards.[5][6]
Splunk aims to make machine data accessible across an organization and identifies data patterns[7], provides metrics, diagnoses problems and provides intelligence for business operation. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.[8] Splunk has over 2,300 licensed customers in 74 countries, including almost half of the Fortune 100.[9]
The name "Splunk" is a reference to exploring caves, as in spelunking. The company is based in San Francisco, with regional operations across EMEA and Asia and has 275 employees.[10] Their CEO since 2008 is Godfrey Sullivan.[11] Splunk is venture funded, having raised 40 million USD by 2007 [12] and becoming profitable since 2009.[13]
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Splunk offers its software in two license types—an Enterprise License designed for companies and large organizations, and a "Free License"[14][15] designed for personal use. The freeware version (proprietary software, not free software) is limited to 500 MB of data a day, and lacks some features of the Enterprise license edition. The product features include: indexing any type of machine-generated data, real-time and historical search, reporting and statistical analysis and dashboards.
Splunk filed U.S. patent application number 11,459,632 for "A method for building a machine data web from machine data"[16] on Jul 24, 2006. The application has not yet been issued as a patent.