38 Facts About Splunk

Splunk Inc is an American software company based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a Web-style interface.

Splunk uses machine data for identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems and providing intelligence for business operations.

Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.

In 2012 Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK.

In December 2013, Splunk acquired Cloudmeter, a provider of network data capture technologies.

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In June 2015, Splunk acquired the software company Metafor that uses machine learning technology to analyze data generated IT infrastructure and applications.

In October 2015 Splunk sealed a "cybersecurity alliance" with U S government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc to offer combined cyberthreat detection and intelligence-analysis technology.

In 2016, Splunk pledged to donate $100 million in software licenses, training, support, education, and volunteerism for nonprofits and schools over a 10-year period.

In May 2017, Splunk acquired Drastin, a software company that provides search-based analytics for enterprises.

In September 2017, Splunk acquired SignalSense which developed cloud-based data collection and breach detection software.

Splunk announced it was using machine learning about that time.

In October 2017, Splunk acquired technology and intellectual property from smaller rival Rocana.

On June 11, 2018, Splunk announced its acquisition of VictorOps, a DevOps incident management startup, for US$120 million.

In July 2018 Splunk acquired KryptonCloud, an industrial IoT and analytics SaaS company.

Splunk acquired the cloud monitoring company, SignalFx, in October 2019 for $1.

Two weeks later on September 4, 2019, Splunk acquired Omnition—an early-stage startup specializing in distributed tracing—for an undisclosed amount.

Splunk announced the launch of its corporate venture fund, Splunk Ventures—a $100 million Innovation Fund and a $50 million Social Impact Fund to invest in early-stage startups.

Splunk was recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM.

Splunk has been noted for its analytics and infrastructure monitoring, its ability to scale and index original, raw data, its infosec functions, and its multiple deployment options.

Splunk reported for its fiscal 2021 fourth quarter revenue of $745.

On March 2, 2022, Splunk named Gary Steele, previously at Proofpoint, as its CEO and the successor to interim chief Graham Smith effective April, 2022.

Splunk's core offering collects and analyzes high volumes of machine-generated data.

Splunk Storm offered a turnkey, managed and hosted service for machine data.

In 2015, Splunk announced a Light version of the core Splunk product, aimed at smaller IT-environments and mid-sized enterprises.

Splunk debuted Splunk IT Service Intelligence in September 2015.

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In 2016, Google announced its cloud platform would integrate with Splunk to expand in areas like IT ops, security, and compliance.

Splunk announced additional machine learning capabilities for several of its major product offerings, which are installed on top of the platform.

Splunk Cloud received FedRAMP authorization from the General Services Administration FedRAMP Program Management Office at the moderate level in 2019, enabling Splunk to sell to the federal government.

In 2017, Splunk introduced Splunk Insights for ransomware, an analytics tool for assessing and investigating potential threats by ingesting event logs from multiple sources.

Splunk launched Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring, a service to facilitate enterprises' migration to Amazon Web Services' cloud.

In 2018, Splunk introduced Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, which extracts information from IIo data from various resources and presents its users with critical alerts.

In 2019, Splunk announced new capabilities to its platform including the general availability of Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor.

Also in 2019, Splunk rolled out Splunk Connected Experiences, which extends its data processing and analytics capabilities to augmented reality, mobile devices, and mobile applications.

In 2019, Splunk introduced an application performance monitoring platform, SignalFx Microservices APM, that pairs “no-sample' monitoring and analysis features with Omnition's full-fidelity tracing capabilities.

Splunk announced that a capability called Kubernetes Navigator would be available through their product, SignalFx Infrastructure Monitoring.

Splunk worked with McLaren Racing for several years, evaluating the performance data pulled from the nearly 300 sensors on every racecar, before becoming McLaren's official technology partner in February 2020.

In November 2018, Splunk signed a sponsorship deal with the Trek-Segafredo professional road cycling team; the partnership started in 2019.

Splunk provides data analysis for the company, including analysis on riders, coaches, and mechanics.