The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is utilizing capabilities from Splunk to see “into the future” in an attempt to answer questions such as whether or not the agency will hit telehealth capacity, a VA official explained today.
At the Dec. 14 Splunk GovSummit in Washington, D.C., Kodi Kirchofner, VA’s infrastructure monitoring architecture and standards manager, explained how the VA has “several use cases where it makes sense to use Splunk.”…
“We can look 15 minutes into the future to determine if we’re going to hit capacity,” Kirchofner said. “And because we’ve had that issue in the past, instead of hitting capacity, and it becoming a crisis, we’re able to see 15 minutes before it happens, ‘hey, we’re going to hit that wall. Let’s throw up another conference node.’ So that way, we can distribute that service and we’re not impacting ends users.”…
