Splunk empowers organisations to understand their data allowing them to find answers to questions that would otherwise remain unanswered, providing solutions to today’s business problems. In today’s world, almost everything produces data in one form or another, to the extent that it is virtually impossible to make sense of it all. Splunk is a software platform used to gather all that unstructured, machine-generated data from virtually any source including operating systems, security devices, websites, applications, sensors and other devices. Once collected, this data can be correlated, searched, analysed and visualised as dashboards in real time, making searching for that crucial information organisations are looking for easy, and as a result automated responses can be defined to take action in real-time.