On Aug 11, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-08-10 21:29, Derek Balling wrote: >> >> Veering slightly off-topic, I remember when I asked them to quote me out a >> license when I was at Answers.com ... for "a couple hundred" servers and >> their system and web traffic and error logs. >> >> They - literally - quoted me a number that was eight digits long, before the >> decimal point. > > Their licenses are based on the amount of log you index per day. If you > didn't provide them with an estimate of how much log you'd consume per day, > then somebody probably did a very pessimistic (for you) estimation.
This is a *problem*, and I can't seem to get anyone at Splunk to care, at least openly. If your entire business is predicated upon analysis of large volumes of data, encouraging your customers (via your pricing model) to log *less* data is at direct cross purposes with the long term growth of your company. "Oh, we can use Splunk for X as well!" gets said a lot, but it's not going to happen unless you've got the data that relates to X already in Splunk to begin with, so you can start seeing the connections that could be made. Until that winds up shifting somehow, I feel like there's a giant untapped market out there that they've got a fit-for-purpose solution for, that they'll never be able to capitalize on. Disclaimer: I love Splunk. I just wish I could *afford* it! -- Corey _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
