Getting started with Splunk

What does Splunk do?
So, let’s start with the first question. Splunk offers a whole suite of various software, apps and APIs, plus a whole lot of flexibility. The most-well known products include:

Splunk Enterprise lets you search, analyze and visualize all of your data, providing insights you can act on.
Splunk Cloud Platform which offers data search, analysis and visualization in the cloud (SaaS).
Our Universal Forwader is the most popular way of getting data into Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform.
Our SIEM, SOAR and observability solutions.
But let’s zoom out.