In our previous videos.
We have understood what is Splunk, how it works, what are the components, how search performs?
We will see now how licensing in Splunk works.
Licensing in Splunk is quite different than any other product.
The license is based on data ingested into Splunk per day.
When I say per day, it is not like last 24 hours.
It is per day.
That is from 12 midnight to the next day to midnight.
The license is, for example, measured as ten GB per day or 100 GB per day.
And it can range up to ten GB to a couple of TB per day.
The size of Splunk license is the data that has been processed by Splunk and stored in Splunk.
Within a span of one complete day.
That is all the Splunk charges or Splunk licensing works.
There are three different types of licenses.
One is the free license, which we have seen in our earlier parts of tutorial, where when we download
a package, we get a 500 MP per day license for a period of 60 days.
The second one is the Splunk developer license, which is ten GB per day, and also if you develop an
app and submit it to the portal.
Once it is verified or published, you will get pre-approval of 50 GB license per day, which you can
use it to learn or explore.
Splunk.
And the later part, we'll see how we can get Splunk developer license so that we can use it for our
own learning purposes.
Probably you can go ahead and create your own enterprise Splunk environment in the Amazon Cloud.
The third one is the Splunk license, Enterprise License, which is a commercial version of Splunk licensing,
which most of the organizations are using.
It ranges from ten GB to probably petabytes per day.
Those kind of scenarios and the licensing cost, if you see the cost, it is like if I buy one GB per
day, it might cost me $1,000.
Yes, $1,000.
But if you go this is just a rough estimate.
This is not the actual figure.
So it might cost up to like $1,000 per GB.
So if I go for ten GB, it might cost me $9,000.
There is a discount of 10%, so the more licence you buy, the cost reduces per GB.
Just as the information.