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Bridging the gaps : joining information sources with Splunk

Corwell, Sophia E.

Supercomputers are composed of many diverse components, operated at a variety of scales, and function as a coherent whole. The resulting logs are thus diverse in format, interrelated at multiple scales, and provide evidence of faults across subsystems. When combined with system configuration information, insights on both the downstream effects and upstream causes of events can be determined. However, difficulties in joining the data and expressing complex queries slow the speed at which actionable insights can be obtained. Effectively connecting data experts and data miners faces similar hurdles. This paper describes our experience with applying the Splunk log analysis tool as a vehicle to combine both data, and people. Splunk's search language, lookups, macros, and subsearches reduce hours of tedium to seconds of simplicity, and its tags, saved searches, and dashboards offer both operational insights and collaborative vehicles.

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TYPE Conference YEAR 2010
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Bridging the gaps : joining information sources with Splunk

Corwell, Sophia E.

Supercomputers are composed of many diverse components, operated at a variety of scales, and function as a coherent whole. The resulting logs are thus diverse in format, interrelated at multiple scales, and provide evidence of faults across subsystems. When combined with system configuration information, insights on both the downstream effects and upstream causes of events can be determined. However, difficulties in joining the data and expressing complex queries slow the speed at which actionable insights can be obtained. Effectively connecting data experts and data miners faces similar hurdles. This paper describes our experience with applying the Splunk log analysis tool as a vehicle to combine both data, and people. Splunk's search language, lookups, macros, and subsearches reduce hours of tedium to seconds of simplicity, and its tags, saved searches, and dashboards offer both operational insights and collaborative vehicles.

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TYPE Conference YEAR 2010
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