Data replication has moved from “nice to have” to “mainstream” for use cases such as High Availability and Disaster Recovery. At the same time, companies are discovering the need to replicate or move data for other reasons, including performance and translating transactional data into events.

Getting data into Splunk can be challenging, especially when dealing with syslog, one of the most crucial data sources. Syslog can present several hard-to-solve problems, such as high volume, non-compliant messages, and the use of the unreliable UDP network protocol. One Identity’s syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE) and syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) can help manage these challenges effectively.