Is anybody using Splunk in a large-scale production environment?

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Published on 2009-06-10T16:34:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 18:23 UTC
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I've been watching the videos at splunk.com and really it's hard to believe that one can get all those features for free, there's still that "where's the catch?" in the back of my head.

So it'd be great if anybody that is actually using it Splunk on production would like to share their experiences, perhaps highlighting its benefits over, say, Nagios?

Thanks much in advance.

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