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Sherman: Expensive Splunk bills are one of Timber's most common customer complaints

Zach Sherman · A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Dec 5, 2018 · at 10:48

Zach Sherman, co-founder of Timber, discusses the cost burden of log management tools like Splunk when explaining the benefits of a data routing layer.

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“One of the most common complaints that we hear is how expensive people's Splunk bills are. Can't tell you how many times I've heard that.”

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High Splunk bills are one of the most common telemetry infrastructure complaints received by Timber.

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