title: Splunk vs ELK - Manage Production logs
body: <p>I'm working on a system that performs daily HPC on a computer grid.
  There are a lot of servers, service and applications (Windows,Linux,IIS,Apache,Websphare,SQL,Mongo,.Net,Python,C++) </p>
  
  <p>It runs once every day.</p>
  
  <p>I'm very familiar with ELK. I especially like the way elastic works as a DB and its features: percolator, scoring system, Rest API, etc..</p>
  
  <p>I've recently heard of Splunk, I've looked into it and it seems pretty nice.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Lets put the $ cost aside</strong></p>
  
  <p>What will be a better solution for a non-cloud base solution that creates a huge amount of logs for about 4 hours a day and may have stress peeks during that time?</p>