Case Study
Defense Agency Gains Push-Button Process for Repetitive Splunk Tasks, Maximizes IT Effectiveness
CASE STUDY Executive Summary A defense agency of the U.S. government faced a significant challenge that required an innovative solution. With a Splunk environment consisting of multiple search head clusters and index clusters, over 10,000 endpoints, and a data ingest rate amounting to terabytes and growing quickly, the customer faced the need for the automation of Splunk administration and maintenance. Hundreds of custom apps were being created from the command line, where configuration files were maintained, as well. To simplify the process, they’d need a friendly interface to work with and a push-button process for the routine administration of Splunk. Challenges » A large scale Splunk infrastructure growing at an extremely fast pace » Many Splunk commands were being perform