SplunkLive! Charlotte, Discovery Communications

1. Matt Cluver
Global Network Operations Analyst

2. Discovery Communications – Overview
• Discovery is the world’s number one nonfiction media company reaching
more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers around the globe.
• In over 200 countries and territories & 45 languages via 144 worldwide
networks
• 24 million unique monthly visitors to Discovery websites
• 4,000 employees in over 38 offices worldwide
• Global headquarters in Silver Spring, MD
• Leading HD provider outside of the U.S. – 152 international markets
• Discovery Channel is the world's most recognized television brand.
(Source: PAX, EMS, TGI, Simmons)
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

3. About Me
• Been at discovery about a year
• Global Network Operations Analyst
• Expertise: Programmer/App developer, Linux sys admin
• Main focus: help discovery monitor applications and services
and do that efficiently providing reporting and metrics
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 3 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

4. Splunk at Discovery
Services Group
• Monitoring: Middle ware, Jboss, Broadcasting circuits
Security Team
• Indexing tipping point and snort logs
Messaging Group
• Exchange application
• Monitoring Exchange Servers
• Using Splunk for SOX Compliance – weekly SOX compliance reports.
Splunk provides detailed accurate information.
"I haven't run into anything that Splunk can't do."
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 4 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

5. Migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange
Challenge
• Company wide migration from Lotus notes to Exchange
• Deployed Splunk for Exchange application at the same time
Result
• Splunk for Exchange gave us a granular view of the environment
• Migration issue and Splunk helped solve it quickly and efficiently
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 5 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

6. Exchange Monitoring
A dashboard or 2 of the
exchange app and monitoring
dashboards would be great!
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 6 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

7. Monitoring Dashboard
Middleware, Broadcasting Circuits
Business impact?
Can you provide a screenshot or 2 of one of the dashboards
you use to monitor middleware, or broadcasting circuits?
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 7 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

8. Using Splunk for Up Fronts
Challenge Solution
• Proprietary ad sales
systems • Real-time dashboards
• Sales try to pre-sale all on performance sales
of our ad sales for the team
whole year • Monitoring ad systems
• Everything is critical – • Better graphics
ad sales system are on • Higher level reporting
peak usage
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 8 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

9. What's Next?
• Splunk for VMWare
• Splunk architecture upgrade in the next month
• Expanding Security use case
• Custom business applications like ad sales
• Automatic Ticket Creation for HP Openview environment
"Splunk is super important at Discovery Communications"
Charlotte, March 29, 2012 9 Copyright © 2012, Splunk Inc.

10. Thank You!