It was probably a contractual obligation to lower the cost of Splunk

It's an embarrassing post, which I read like "we can't even build a commodity subsystem properly". And I think it also does not sound well for Splunk either - it's like a sign of desperation!

I believe that, it actually reads like it was written by someone at Splunk! Very little detail about what they are logging and why - it's a surprisingly poor article that is little more than a crappy ad for Splunk.