Splunk is a top-level distributed data computing platform for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. It can process various logs or machine data generated by any system, software or device, and provides operations such as real-time data collection, storage, indexing, searching, correlation, visualization, analysis, and reporting in a wide range of scenarios, so as to transform big data into actions and values of the enterprise.

To run a website, you must clearly know the visitors and traffics relevant data (including visitor's stay time, location, operating system, web browser, browsed web pages, screen dimension, device type, etc.) of your site by analyzing the log file on your web server, in order to distinctly grasp the future development direction of Internet and your website. Instead of wasting time on manually going through the numerous traffic patterns and logs, you can use Sawmill to achieve this challenging job in a faster way with better results.