First things first. Try Hunk before you go down this path. Hunk allows you to seamlessly query your Hive tables with native SPL queries from the search interface. This gives you all the goodness of Splunk including agile reporting and analytics, role-based access controls, report acceleration and the fast time to value that you’ve come to know and love from Splunk. If you have tried Hunk and it’s
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