Splunk has created the means to offer developers easy access to that data and the powerful inferences gleaned from comprehensive IT search. That means the data can go places no log file has gone before.

** This is powerful stuff folks **

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PacketTrap, which has pegged SolarWinds as its top competition, designed its products for network managers with between 100 and 5,000 nodes to manage.

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