First, you You need to be on edX VPN to access splunk at https://splunk.edx.org and will also need to file a ticket to create an Splunk Account.
What is Splunk?
Splunk is a query interface for users to retrieve specific log messages on our web servers. Whenever you see in code "logger.info", "logger.warning" or "logger.exception". Those logs gets written into the log files onto the web server instance.
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