"Many companies may stay with Splunk Light," Mowlem said, "but some will want to expand." The transition between the Light and Enterprise versions is "seamless," involving nothing more than buying an upgrade license key, installing it, and restarting, with all existing data and settings preserved, he said. The prepackaged Splunk apps, enterprise-grade distributed processing, and security options are not included in Spunk Light, but Splunk's core features - ingestion, analysis, reporting, alerting, dashboards, and so on - are all present. Shay Mowlem, vice president of product marketing at Splunk, said most of the features not included in the light version are unlikely to be of interest to the midmarket customer targeted with this release. Splunk Light, however, indexes up to 500MB per day for free, and will index anywhere from 1GB to 20GB per day for a sliding scale fee starting at $75/month.
Anything more than 100GB per day requires a custom quote. The full-blown Enterprise edition of Splunk carries a four-figure price tag, with volume discounts available for those indexing large amounts of data. Splunk Light's search functions behaves the same as its more upscale enterprise cousins, although enterprise features like apps and distributed processing aren't included. But its low-to-no starting cost has a catch: It only allows a limited amount of data to be processed per day through Splunk. To broaden Splunk's appeal, the company is now unveiling Splunk Light, with a much lower price tag. But the log analytics system, which has a cost-by-usage price tag, is feeling pressure from low- and no-cost alternatives. Splunk has grown into a full-blown analysis ecosystem.
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