To corroborate this, it has not been our experience that Splunk doesn't scale. We have a ~40GB/day environment and according to support can scale that to ~100GB/day on a single quad-core server with SAN back-end, license permitting. The lag between reception and indexing is negligible; we actually have some developers looking at their own debug logs in it.<p>Unfortunately, I don't work in a TB/day environment (though that would be fun), so I can't comment on that directly, but our experience with Splunk has been positive at this scale and I see no reason so far why a distributed installation with multiple 100GB/day nodes would change that. The only customer complaints we have are basically that long-term searches don't return instantly, and that's primarily a factor of I/O speed and can be resolved by setting up summary indexing (which requires forethought about what data you're interested in... therefore, it very rarely happens in my organization).