In the first blog post(Introduction to Splunk), I walked you through the process of getting Splunk installed on your Linux systems. Now I will talk about how you can collect logs from remote servers. You can get data into your Splunk platform instance in a number of ways. The best way depends on the location and volume of data, your infrastructure and security needs. In this blog post, you will learn how to use a universal forwarder in order to collect logs from remote servers. The Universal Forwarder is the best mechanism for collecting logs from servers and end-user systems.
Introduction to Splunk
Splunk is a software platform that collects and stores all this machine data in one place. It makes it as easy to search through and investigate that data as using Google. Basically, it's Google for log files! Beyond troubleshooting, you can use this search capability to build reports and dashboards to monitor performance, reliability, or other metrics across a whole collection of related servers and devices, and even create alerts to warn you by text or email when something is going wrong.
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