{"id":13756,"date":"2020-06-08T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:06:15","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-1297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=13756","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I&#39;ve seen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon Linux (in Splunk classes)<\/li>\n<li>RHEL\/CentOS<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu<\/li>\n<li>SLES<\/li>\n<li>Windows (once (and for a very strange set of circumstances))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, it doesn&#39;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>In long, go with the Linux you either already know, or the one that your organization is already standardized on (which is nearly the same thing)<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#39;t know one, or your org doesn&#39;t <em>have<\/em> a standard &#8230; first: learn Linux. You. Will. Need. It.<\/p>\n<p>Second, if your organization doesn&#39;t <em>already<\/em> have a Linux standard: you <em>most likely<\/em> don&#39;t want to be self-hosting Splunk &#8211; go for Splunk Cloud. Yes, you can run it on Windows &#8211; I&#39;ve seen that all of once in 3+ years in the field. No, you don&#39;t want to. Unless you&#39;re in a <em>very<\/em> particular set of circumstances where you&#39;re <em>only<\/em> looking at Windows data &#8230; and even then &#8211; it&#39;s not ideal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>June 08, 2020 at 11:03AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Splunk\/comments\/gyg56h\/if_i_want_to_run_splunk_on_linux_which_one_is\/ftdiglm?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve seen: Amazon Linux (in Splunk classes) RHEL\/CentOS Ubuntu SLES Windows (once (and for a very strange set of circumstances)) In short, it doesn&#39;t matter. In long, go with the Linux you either already know, or the one that your organization is already standardized on (which is nearly the same thing) If you don&#39;t know &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=13756\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13757,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}