Duncan Turnbull who can be seen doing a celebratory fist pump in the video was determined to kill someone with a frying pan, which he successfully achieved. We had Graham Morris (the UK presales manager) on our team who was a bit handy and tried to get our team working together effectively. The Splunk team went from the sublime to the ridiculous to downright useless cannon fodder (me). There had already been some excuses given by the journalists on Twitter but they were definitely lulling Splunk into a false sense of security. Well stocked up with beer, pizza and Red Bull, the journalists arrived at the Splunk London office. Click to make full screen (my favourite is the weapon icon in the Real-Time Kill Updates): Here’s an example of the real-time gameplay stats. This last point didn’t work out great for me as it showed just how bad I was at the game (more on that later). The app gives you real-time gameplay intelligence about current game stats and very detailed information including: The Splunk App for TF2 collects the log data from the TF2 game servers and gives you insight, analytics and data visualizations into what’s going on in the game. You can see what happened in the video below: The idea of the evening was find out who was best at TF2 – journalists or Splunkers (the title might give you a clue as to who was the winner) and to demonstrate the Splunk App for TF2. Valve will rely on Splunk software to analyze more than five terabytes of machine data daily from a large volume of servers and to interpret network traffic events. Valve have over 100 million active accounts and they are using Splunk to get Operational Intelligence into how games are being played, uptime of servers and ensuring the security of Valve and Steam games. Valve are also creators of some of the best-selling game franchises including Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal as well as leading technologies Steam and Source. As a bit of background, Team Fortress 2 (or TF2) is one of Valve’s most popular games.

A team of journalists faced off against a group of UK Splunkers. To tie in with the recent news that Valve have standardized on Splunk, we hosted a Team Fortress 2 Smackdown event in the Splunk London office.

Team fortress 2 is dead