I had been ignoring the ‘hey, upgrade to splunk 4.0’ message I’ve been getting, as there isn’t a free license that I could find in the 4.0 release branch, and splunk 3 was doing everything I needed. Little did I know, splunk is working on a new free license, due out in Q4 2009. I’ve been playing with the new enterprise release at work some – and it’s totally worth the upgrade. If you already have log monitoring up and running, this may not be the tool for you, but it’s still pretty wicked, and it’s worth looking at.

Download the free demo.