Virtualization delivers both the benefits of more efficient use of resources, but it also brings with it the disadvantage of complex management of a dynamic environment. Traditional monitoring tools are often not able to handle resources properly. One good example is security monitoring (user access, user activity, adjustments of rights, who is logged in, etc.), which can still often be difficult in a virtualized environment.

Splunk, the leading provider of real-time operational intelligence software, has released Splunk App for VMware 3.0 to provide deep operational visibility into granular performance metrics, logs, tasks and events and topology from hosts, virtual machines and virtual centers. The Splunk App for VMware empowers IT administrators with an accurate real-time analysis of the health of the environment by identifying performance and capacity bottlenecks.

The new release of the Splunk App for VMware introduces new scalability and usability enhancements and enables the visibility benefits associated with correlating VMware data with other operational data. It also able to trend, baseline and analyze CPU, memory and disk consumption and forecast and plan for growth.

“The Splunk App for VMware showcases Splunk’s leadership in providing deep levels of analytics across the entire infrastructure. With more than 25 out-of-the-box reports, the Splunk App for VMware shines a light on the entire virtual infrastructure and enables administrators to quickly resolve issues and get deeper analytics about the health, security and capacity of their environments,” said Leena Joshi, senior director of solutions marketing, Splunk. “With Splunk software, customers can achieve a broad, central view of key performance indicators across the entire data center, not just the virtualization layer. This helps ensure improved user satisfaction and effective resource planning as well as the ability to track changes, control costs and eliminate vulnerabilities.”

Analyze the health of virtual environments

The latest version comes with auto-load-balanced configuration, which allows uninterrupted visibility into VMware environments. The easy to install platform provides real-time granular visibility into VMware environments across hosts, virtual machines and virtual centers based on pre-defined thresholds and pre-packaged log analyses.

The app features python written data collection engine that makes calls to the VMware API. IT administrator can schedule the distribution of data collection jobs within the app to configure dashboard and implement fault tolerance and load balances data collection across nodes. The user interface driven data collection configuration process makes it easy to highlight problems and emphasize statistical comparisons of performance metrics, visibility into potential security breaches and non-compliant usage patterns. In addition, the app allows granular detail of metrics and log data, directly collected from Virtual Centers and via syslog.

The Splunk App for VMware 3.0 release followed by version 2.4 of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security. The Splunk App for Enterprise Security provides Statistical Analysis for Threat Detection, making it the next generation of security intelligence. The company has also recently introduced version 5.0 of the Splunk App for Windows. Just like VMware environment, the latest Splunk App for Windows update provides monitoring capabilities of enterprise-class Windows server and allows users to control their entire infrastructure.