Cloudmeter Stream for Splunk Enterprise is now available, allowing Splunk users to unlock the Big Data ‘gold mine’ found in their network traffic data to gain visibility into their online applications, users experience and business outcome.

“Cloudmeter Stream for Splunk enhances the richness of analytics available for Splunk users by capturing raw packet data,” said Bill Gaylord, Sr VP of business development at Splunk. “Visualizing this high-value data in Splunk Enterprise, alongside other infrastructure and application data, allows administrators and analysts to get real-time visibility into web traffic critical application performance that impacts end user experience.”

Splunk's software platform for operational intelligence captures, indexes and harnesses machine-generated Big Data such as data from websites, applications, servers, mobile devices, sensors and more. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. Cloudmeter Stream expands the value of Splunk Enterprise by shining a light on this data source.

“Cloudmeter’s groundbreaking technology lets customers capture the highest quality business and IT data without needing to add a single line of code ­ and then feeds it seamlessly into Splunk Enterprise. Companies benefit with the ability to gain a true understanding of their online applications,” said Ronit Belson, COO of Cloudmeter. “This powerful combination is a great example of how bringing the best Big Data solutions together can drive better, faster, more accurate business and IT decisions.”

Cloudmeter Stream for Splunk is designed to help companies leverage the highly valuable information that flows through their networks. It includes the industry’s first ultra-light passive capture agent that can be installed directly on customers’ servers and does not require connecting to network infrastructure.

Cloudmeter enhances data captured in Splunk Enterprise, such as web log metrics and events, and allows customers to get an enriched view into how operational issues are affecting the customer experience. This type of contextual intelligence helps users get more out of their Splunk product. Moreover, as a non-intrusive solution, Cloudmeter Stream allows users to change the data captured on the fly and in real time.

With Cloudmeter Stream, Splunk customers can now:

- Minimize blind spots and render the most meaningful network data

- Transform and contextualize network data with the ability to drill down into specific business and IT information in real time

- Easily filter and stream only the most relevant information

- Adjust data capture requirements on the fly

- Enrich data with built-in event processing technology

- Support applications running in public clouds, private clouds and on internal networks

- Help to eliminate risk to production systems with no impact on performance.