All our solutions are powered by Collectord, an enterprise-grade container-native software built by Outcold Solutions that delivers comprehensive capabilities for discovering, transforming, and forwarding logs, collecting system metrics, gathering control plane metrics from orchestration frameworks, and monitoring network activity. Collectord provides flexible and powerful tools for log transformation, enabling you to protect sensitive information by filtering it from log lines before forwarding. Reduce your licensing costs by up to 60% with Collectord's intelligent data filtering—choose exactly which data to forward from log streams. Collectord seamlessly forwards container logs, host logs, and automatically discovers logs from containerized applications.
"Outcold Solutions helped us reduce our Splunk licensing costs by 50% while improving our monitoring capabilities. The deployment was seamless and their support team is exceptional."
— DevOps Manager, Fortune 500 Financial Services
"The best container monitoring solution we've evaluated. Installation took literally 5 minutes and we had full visibility into our Kubernetes clusters immediately."
— Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Global Technology Company
"Outstanding product quality and world-class support. Outcold Solutions has been instrumental in our digital transformation journey."
— Cloud Infrastructure Director, Healthcare Enterprise
"Their Red Hat certified OpenShift solution gave us the confidence to deploy in production immediately. The security and compliance features are exactly what enterprise customers need."
— Security Architect, Government Agency
"Support is exceptional. The team is responsive, knowledgeable, and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure our success. Instant connection with the team of experts. Helped us to solve issues not only with their product but also with our infrastructure, including Kubernetes and Splunk deployments."
— DevOps Engineer, Global Logistics Leader
A leading international logistics corporation with operations in over 220 countries faced significant challenges when migrating their Java applications from traditional VMs to Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters. Their Java applications had established configurations for writing logs to specific directories, and redirecting these logs to container stdout was problematic and resource-intensive.
Solution: Using Collectord's volume monitoring capabilities and annotation system, the company maintained their existing logging patterns without code changes. By implementing annotations to automatically discover and forward logs from various directories, they achieved a seamless transition to containerized environments.
Results: The company successfully migrated 200+ applications to containers without disrupting their logging workflows. Development teams maintained familiar logging practices while operations gained enhanced visibility. Deployment times decreased by 40% by eliminating the need for custom log forwarding configurations.
A major telecommunications enterprise with numerous development teams struggled with directing logs to the appropriate Splunk outputs and indexes. With over 50 teams running containerized applications, each team required different Splunk indices and output configurations to meet compliance requirements.
Solution: Implementing Collectord's annotation-based configuration system allowed the company to decentralize log management configuration while maintaining central governance. Teams could independently specify their required Splunk outputs and indexes through Kubernetes annotations without requiring infrastructure team intervention.
Results: The organization reduced configuration ticket volume by 85% and accelerated application deployment cycles by 3 days on average. Security compliance improved as teams gained precise control over data routing while the central platform team maintained oversight.
A large financial services company had invested heavily in container monitoring with Splunk but needed to migrate to ElasticSearch for strategic reasons. They were concerned about disrupting their existing monitoring workflows and losing the benefits of their annotation-based log configuration system.
Solution: Leveraging Collectord's platform-agnostic architecture, the company was able to reconfigure their output destination from Splunk to ElasticSearch while maintaining their existing annotation system for log extraction, field mapping, and sensitive data filtering.
Results: The organization completed their logging platform migration with zero changes to application configurations. Development teams continued using the same annotation patterns they were already familiar with, and the migration was transparent to end users. The company saved an estimated 2,000 hours of reconfiguration work.
A multinational banking corporation providing infrastructure-as-a-service to internal teams faced challenges with "noisy neighbor" applications overwhelming their logging infrastructure. Certain teams were generating excessive log volumes that impacted performance for everyone.
Solution: Using Collectord's advanced throttling capabilities, the infrastructure team implemented project and namespace-specific quotas on log volume. The annotation-based configuration allowed precise control over which applications and teams were subject to specific throughput limits.
Results: Log ingestion became predictable and manageable, preventing service degradation during peak loads. The bank was able to implement fair usage policies while providing flexibility for teams with legitimate high-volume needs. Overall system reliability improved by 99.8%, and infrastructure costs decreased by 30% through elimination of overprovisioning.
Outcold Solutions provides solutions for monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. We offer certified Splunk applications, which give you insights across all container environments. We are helping businesses reduce complexity related to logging and monitoring by providing easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy solutions for Linux and Windows containers. We deliver applications, which help developers monitor their applications and help operators keep their clusters healthy. With the power of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud, we offer one solution to help you keep all the metrics and logs in one place, allowing you to quickly address complex questions on container performance.
Gain comprehensive visibility into container and process performance with detailed metrics including CPU, memory, disk I/O, and security insights. Forward application-specific metrics in Prometheus format and leverage pre-built Splunk dashboards for immediate operational intelligence and faster mean time to resolution (MTTR).
Centralize logs from containers, applications, and servers with intelligent filtering and enrichment. Use flexible mappings to filter logs enriched with container metadata, correlate logs with metrics, and leverage advanced Splunk analytics. Collectord transforms logs before forwarding, automatically removes sensitive information and PII data for GDPR compliance, and reduces licensing and storage costs by up to 60% through intelligent data selection.
Prevent downtime with comprehensive cluster diagnostics through historical event analysis, resource allocation monitoring, and intelligent capacity management. Deploy production-ready alerts for cluster health monitoring with zero configuration required—ensuring 99.9% uptime from day one.
Implement granular access controls by clusters, namespaces, pods, or containers to meet enterprise security requirements. Monitor network activities within clusters and external connections for threat detection. Automatically identify containers with elevated security permissions and maintain comprehensive audit trails for compliance reporting and deployment change tracking.
Eliminate tool sprawl with a unified platform for log and metrics collection that developers actually want to use. Through simple annotations, development teams can customize data presentation in log aggregation tools, specify multiline log patterns, remove terminal escape codes, and override types, sources, and indexes—reducing operational overhead by 40% while accelerating development cycles.
We deliver enterprise-grade monitoring solutions for Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. With a 10-minute setup, you'll have a comprehensive monitoring platform that includes intelligent log aggregation, performance and system metrics, control plane metrics, application metrics, network activity dashboards, and proactive alerts for cluster and application performance issues. All solutions are powered by Collectord, our enterprise-grade container-native software that provides advanced capabilities for log discovery, transformation, and forwarding, comprehensive metrics collection from control planes and orchestration frameworks, and network activity monitoring. Collectord's intelligent log transformation capabilities protect sensitive information before forwarding and reduce licensing costs by up to 60% through smart data filtering. Collectord seamlessly handles container logs, host logs, and automatically discovers application logs from containerized workloads.
Outcold Solutions takes its name from our founder's recognized industry handle "outcoldman," which became synonymous with expertise in Docker and Splunk integration during the early adoption phase of containerization. Our founder's deep technical knowledge and early adoption of containerization made them a trusted voice in the enterprise monitoring community, establishing the technical foundation that drives our solutions today.
Our founder's industry contributions include developing the original Docker images for Splunk that became the official Splunk Docker images, contributing to the Splunk logging driver for Docker, and serving as a technical authority through speaking engagements at Splunk Conferences. This proven track record of innovation and enterprise-grade solutions continues to guide our commitment to delivering reliable, scalable monitoring platforms for mission-critical environments.