A prominent business in the Indianapolis area has asked the Living Lab to assist them in creating dashboards in order to view information about their error and event logs in real time. This data will be used to perform analysis on the data and determine ways to optimize their up-time. Using Splunk, a data mining tool designed to analyze and store machine data, the Living Lab will create dashboards, which provide a real-time view of the necessary information, to track and monitor the logs and potential hazardous events. If this project is successful, the company will then install Splunk on a company server, and implement the changes in order to increase productivity for their Business Intelligence Team.
The project has been a success. The dashboards created have shown the client the need to activate additional auditing tables in their database so that they can start to obtain even more information. The use of Splunk as a reporting tool and for viewing semi-real time performance is now being discussed as an organization-wide tool for systems monitoring and is in further development for three additional systems.
Project Student: Thomas Scheel
