Founded in 2003, Splunk is a global company  — with over 7,500 employees, Splunkers have received over 1,020 patents to date and availability in 21 regions around the world — and offers an open, extensible data platform that supports shared data across any environment so that all teams in an organization can get end-to-end visibility, with context, for every interaction and business process. Build a strong data foundation with Splunk.

Removing these data barriers uncovers tons of meaning and actionable steps organizations. That’s why you’ll hear us talk about Splunkers (our employees and community) or the idea of Splunking around. Importantly, it’s not only the capabilities that we offer — the real exciting stuff is all the things you can do with those capabilities.

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Today, we know that building resilience is a team effort. That’s why, over the years, we have acquired a few companies and merged their technologies into our solutions, providing more teams a way to get everything they need in one place.

Spelunking is the hobby of exploring caves and mines. Splunking, then, is the exploration of information caves and the mining of data. Splunk helps you explore things that aren’t easy to get to otherwise, like log data and messages and machine data.

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To that end, Splunk offers a whole suite of various software, apps and APIs, plus a whole lot of flexibility for your future needs. Our solutions help organizations mature your digital resilience, so you can adapt to anything. The most-well known Splunk products include:

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Splunk is the key to enterprise resilience. Put simply, that means organizations who use Splunk can tackle digital disruptions a whole lot differently. Whether you need comprehensive visibility, rapid dection and investigation, an optimized resource — or all three! — Splunk solutions have you covered.

Learning Splunk does take some time and effort, but once you know it, the possibilities are endless. To help you in this, you can…

The first thing to know about using Splunk is that we have our own query language, Search Processing Language — SPL for short. In fact, we now have SPL2, a newer version. See the differences between SPL and SPL2.

Hopefully this article gives you a little sense of all the things Splunk — and the Splunk community — can help you achieve. And, as the saying goes, happy Splunking! Want to learn more? Get in touch!

2023 was a big year here at Splunk. In October, we celebrated our 20th anniversary. And we announced our intent to join forces with Cisco. We also support ongoing data innovation with Splunk Ventures. We are dedicating $150 million to invest in early-stage orgs that aim to have a positive impact on society while expanding and enhancing digital resilience.

Splunk offers a single place to understand how your organization is working — and more importantly — where it is not working. Ultimately Splunk is only limited by your creativity! Check out some unique ways people have used Splunk:

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Our claims to fame. We’re known for being a company where people want to work. Long-time users know all about our .conf extravaganza (returning June 2024), Buttercup the pony, and our very own t-shirt store.

I wrote this article to help answer all these questions and point you in the right direction. First things first — Splunk formally refers to our company. Less formally, though, you might hear about Splunk in reference to our products, services and other offerings. Employees at Splunk are known as Splunkers. Importantly, the coolest part about our company is probably the global community of people who use and rely on Splunk offerings in their own workplaces.

The Splunk platform removes the barriers between data and action, empowering observability, IT and security teams to ensure their organizations are secure, resilient and innovative.

Seeing that “everything” makes data, the team sought a way to extract value from that. The technology centered around a powerful search engine that scanned and stored log files within system infrastructure. We’ve grown a lot since those early days:

True partnerships. A whole bunch of world-class companies use Splunk technologies. Cal Poly is training future cybersecurity leaders, McLaren drives data on the racetrack and Heineken pours data-driven quality into everything they do. Check out more customer stories.

As simply as possible, we offer a big data platform that can help you do a lot of things better. Using Splunk the right way powers cybersecurity, observability, network operations and a whole bunch of important tasks that large organizations require.

Hi! We’re Splunk, and we’re glad you’re visiting us today. (And just maybe, you're visiting because of some big news: Splunk has officially joined Cisco. Indeed, we are so excited for this opportunity.)

More than you expect. Splunk is not a single product or service, but our company name, our dedication to our customers and our singular focus on helping you do what you do better.

Cutting-edge research. All of our teams do incredible work, including SURGe and the Splunk Threat Research Team, who focus on different areas of security, threat research and organizational guidance. Of course, we also survey and issue industry reports like:

Chief executive officer and chairman. We were started in October 2003. Since April 2022, Gary Steele serves as our CEO and chairman. Meet our leadership team.

Honestly , we hear from people far and wide about “What does Splunk do?”, “Does the name Splunk mean something?” And of course, “How can I learn Splunk?”

And here’s some more of our story: Splunk was founded in the early 2000s by Eric Swan, Rob Das and Michael Baum. Inspired by cave spelunking, they sought a way to better see into all the siloed information caves typical of most organizations.