Splunk is enterprise software that allows for monitoring, reporting, and analyzing consolidated log files. Splunk captures and indexes real-time data into a single searchable repository from which reports, graphs, and other data visualization can be generated.
The PingFederate Splunk App provides rich system monitoring and reporting, including:
- Current transaction and system reports
- Service reports such as a daily usage report and IdP and SP reports per connection
- Trend reports such as weekly and monthly usage reports, and trend analysis
The application uses a specially formatted version of the audit log (splunk-audit.log), which is written to the PingFederate log directory when the setup steps described below are followed.
The Splunk App for PingFederate is available separately. It requires enterprise-licensed (or trial) installation of the Splunk software and the Splunk Universal Forwarder, which is needed to collect data from the PingFederate audit log for Splunk. The application includes additional documentation on installation and available features. Download the free application from splunkbase.splunk.com. (Search for PingFederate.)