Splunk

Splunk is an American software company based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a Web-style interface.

Its software helps capture, index and correlate real-time data in a searchable repository, from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations. Splunk uses machine data for identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.

History

Recent history

In 2020, Splunk was named to the Fortune 1000 list.

As of September 2020, Splunk's client list includes 92 companies on the Fortune 100 list.

Splunk was recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM.[35] The Gartner report evaluates SIEM providers, and then provides a graph (the Magic Quadrant) with vendors plotted based on their ability to execute (the Y-Axis) and their completeness of vision (the X-Axis). Splunk has been noted for its analytics and infrastructure monitoring, its ability to scale and index original, raw data, its infosec functions, and its multiple deployment options.

Splunk reported for its fiscal 2021 fourth quarter revenue of $745.1 million. For all of fiscal 2021 Splunk reported revenue of $2.23 billion.

On November 15, 2021, Douglas Merritt stepped down as president and CEO. Graham Smith, Splunk's chairman since 2019, took over as interim CEO.

On March 02, 2022, Splunk named Gary Steele, previously at Proofpoint, as its CEO and the successor to interim chief Graham Smith effective April, 2022.