SplunkIt
Overview
Details
The kit creates a small dataset comprised of syslog events (50 GB) that can be leveraged for measuring the following performance characteristics:
-indexing throughput
-search response time
*Note that this kit is not an exhaustive performance benchmarking toolkit as it does not cover multi-user scenarios, concurrent/streaming workloads, distributed environments, and objective hardware measurements.
Compare metrics by running this benchmark on other hardware you own. Compare against our systems. We'll be sharing some of our results on http://blogs.splunk.com/tag/performance. Share yours too by sending us results at splunkit@splunk.com
Details
Index Test
How long does it take Splunk to index 50GB of syslog data?
Search Test
How long does it take to run a search through Splunk Web?
- Splunk server
- contains 50GB of syslog data in its index (from running the above Index Test)
- is indexing syslog data (incoming rate of 3GB/hr)
- is running 60+ custom scheduled searches (not all at once)
- is running default (out-of-the-box) Splunk scheduled searches
- Search user
- runs a search using Splunk Web
- records amount of time it takes for the search to complete
- sleeps 1s, then repeat
Test runs for 80 minutes
Extending SplunkIt
How does Splunk behave with other types of data? With more/less data volume? On a different deployment topology? With more search users running different searches, maybe hitting a custom dashboard?
SplunkIt is easily extensible (and different search user profiles included to help you get started)
Release Notes
Version 3.2
Version 3.1
Python requirements for splunkit-server lowered to 2.6
Version 3.0
- Added Splunk 6 support
- Upgraded to Selenium 33 (supports up to Firefox 21)
- Added CLI search support
Version 2.0.2
Version 2.0.1
Version 2.0.1:
removed py/readline
Upgraded to Selenium 31
Version 2.0:
Added Splunk 5 support
Integrated console behavior into the splunkit-server scripts
Replaced The Grinder with a test framework based on Pyro - no GUI needed
Removed Apache Ant and Java from system requirements
Simplified setup of splunkit-user role
Added the option to use custom scheduled searches and user searches
Switched from Selenium java client to the Selenium python client
Upgraded to Selenium 27 (from version 15) and added Firefox 14 support
Version 2.0
- Added Splunk 5 support
- Integrated console behavior into the splunkit-server scripts
- Replaced The Grinder with a test framework based on Pyro - no GUI needed
- Removed Apache Ant and Java from system requirements
- Simplified setup of splunkit-user role
- Added the option to use custom scheduled searches and user searches
- Switched from Selenium java client to the Selenium python client
- Upgraded to Selenium 27 (from version 15) and added Firefox 14 support