Splunk Enterprise 6 Delivers Powerful, Fast Analytics to Business, IT Users

by Darryl K. Taft

Splunk Enterprise 6 includes powerful productivity features for users with a completely redesigned user experience that delivers simpler, more intuitive actions. The new home experience is easy to personalize and gives users instant access to the data, apps and content they care about.

Pivot opens up the power of analytics to nontechnical business users and analysts with a simple drag-and-drop interface to explore, manipulate and visualize data.

Pivot includes the ability to click and drag pre-built visualizations and quickly build complex queries and reports without learning a query language.

Data Models provide for a more meaningful representation of underlying machine data and a deeper understanding of relationships in the data, making this data more useful to a broader base of users.

High Performance Analytics Store is a patent-pending transparent acceleration technology that delivers analytics performance up to 1,000 times faster than any previous version of Splunk Enterprise.

Enhanced Dashboard Editing lets users build interactive dashboards and user workflows without writing advanced code and enables one-click access to develop in the Splunk Web framework.

Forwarder Management supports big data scale with easy configuration and visual management of thousands of forwarder configurations across multiple regions.

Simplified Cluster Management delivers easier management of mission-critical Splunk software deployments by monitoring high availability, automating search workloads and making it easier to deploy apps. Everything the Splunk administrator needs to know can be monitored on a centralized dashboard.

Splunk Enterprise 6 features integrated maps such as this one.

The enhanced search experience brings search and reporting together so users can author rich, dynamic reports and build visualizations, tables and custom searches.

Splunk 6 automates search workloads and makes it easier to deploy apps.

Splunk 6 lets users build complex queries and reports without learning a query language.