Splunk announced version 5.0 of the Splunk App for Windows, which delivers enterprise-class monitoring for Microsoft Windows Server.

The Splunk App for Windows enables users to monitor their end-to-end infrastructure to prevent outages and pinpoint performance issues in minutes.

Today's Windows environments are more complex than ever before and are often deployed at a massive global scale. The need for real-time monitoring of the Windows platform is key to ensuring compliance of critical updates and patches and avoiding performance bottlenecks and network lag.

The Splunk App for Windows enables Windows operations teams to monitor and analyze components beyond basic infrastructure by collecting and indexing machine data from CPUs, memory, disk and network usage, Windows updates, event logs and more.

The Splunk App for Windows facilitates getting more machine-generated data from more sources into a single platform, enabling Splunk Enterprise to deliver more value across the enterprise by helping:

- Application teams better understand the baseline infrastructure that supports an application or service and avoid service degradation.

- Windows administrators troubleshoot performance and use real-time metrics to plan for workload delivery.

- Network administrators leverage real-time performance metrics to avoid service outages and increase performance.

- CIOs gain real-time visibility of Windows Server infrastructure performance and service levels.

"IT organizations around the world rely on Microsoft Windows Server as the base of their business infrastructure," said Manish Kalra, director of product marketing, Splunk. "The Splunk App for Windows helps to create visibility across the entire Windows infrastructure, monitoring everything from Windows Servers to the thousands of Windows-based laptops and PCs. This can help keep critical systems online by enabling users to identify performance issues in real time or before they happen."