SplunkBase Brings IT Troubleshooting Wiki to the Masses 128
OSS_ilation writes "IT troubleshooting firm Splunk is using LinuxWorld Boston as a platform to formally launch Splunk Base, a global wiki that will offer IT pros a free-of-charge venue to exchange troubleshooting information, tools and fixes. Splunk is promising that the wiki is completely vendor neutral, and can be compared to Wikipedia, the online open encyclopedia that is regulated and updated by the community-at-large. Users don't even have to have a copy of Splunk Professional to use it. From the article: 'If you believe the research from firms like Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, then Splunk Base has arrived at a key moment. According to IDC, companies will spend more than $100 billion this year on managing the world's data centers. And with virtualization quickly becoming an IT buzzword in 2006, the complexity and costs could increase.'"
The URL is splunk.org (Score:2, Informative)
traffic LEAK... (Score:3, Informative)
Missing from the article summary (Score:3, Informative)
So come on editors, it's the announcement for the release of a new wiki, which despite the $DIETY-awful name, might be a useful resource. How about, you know, linking to it? I hear the web is good for that.
Re:A little late to the party, don't you think? (Score:3, Informative)
Google, as great as it is with other shit, usually returns Expert Exchange as the first couple of hits on any search for help. Boo.
I welcome any open and free wiki competitor to EE.
You miss the point. (Score:3, Informative)
homepage title (Score:1, Informative)
Re:A little late to the party, don't you think? (Score:5, Informative)
Or do what I do, add "-site:experts-exchange.com" to my search criteria. The search won't include links from that domain.
Splunk and SplunkBase (Score:2, Informative)
Splunk is a log aggregation server that classifies and tags events found in your logs making it easy to grep through them.
SplunkBase is an extension of Splunk, a web based service that you can lookup events (linked from the Splunk application) and (perhaps) get more information about them.
Re:Did you guys look at it? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.splunk.com/ [splunk.com]
Re:Experts Exchange - scroll down! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Experts Exchange - scroll down! (Score:4, Informative)
Nice troll though!
"View Solution" would be what the OP called [lame subscription button].
If you had bothered to read the OP you would have scrolled down past the lame View Solution button. There you will find all answers to the question. I've just checked it for the link you gave and they are there.
Nice troll though!
Unregistered EE usage (Score:5, Informative)
I will say that the unregistered EE is heavy on the advertising, and they make it fairly difficult to register for a free account [experts-exchange.com]. This signs you up as an "expert," although any registered user, paid or not, can answer questions.
You get a limited number of points per month to ask questions with, and need to earn 10,000 expert points (answer a question for 500 points with an 'A' grade, and you get 2000 expert points) to get free premium membership, then 3000 pts/mo to maintain that membership. If you are knowledgeable about anything tech, you can do it easy.
The tech forums are extremely well moderated, and the caliber of people who answer questions is fairly high.
Re:Did you guys look at it? (Score:4, Informative)
Splunk = the log file aggregator you looked at, that you have to pay for, and is not a wiki.
Splunk Base = the free wiki that the
PS - Splunk is not intended for displaying your logfiles to the world, it is only intended to provide a nicer, Ajax-based website interface for grepping your log files. Ideally it will be used only on the corporate intranet, not the public internet. If SysAdmins or Developers need access to it from outside the internet, they can VPN into the intranet and access it that way. There's no reason to make this available publicly through the firewall.
Re:Missing from the article summary (Score:1, Informative)