Leading organizations understand the value of data in decision making and use it to their advantage by gathering, auditing and manipulating intelligence hidden in data. However, the challenge most businesses face is maneuvering around colossal amounts of machine-generated data that can be structured, unstructured or...

In our previous blog titled How data ages in Splunk, we discussed the different stages that data goes through. We explained how data progresses from Hot to Warm to Cold to Frozen and Thawed stages. Data in the frozen stage can either be archived or...

Backing up your data is common sense. But before you decide how to back up your indexed data, you should familiarize yourself with how the indexer stores data in Splunk and how data ages once it has been indexed. We have covered this topic in...