Troubleshooting day-to-day CTRM issues is the biggest challenge commodities firms face. Value Creed explains that primitive logging mechanisms are much to blame, but Splunk logging can alleviate the disc-storage and time-consuming downsides inherent in many CTRM platforms. Splunk captures, indexes, and formats captured data in real time and stores it in searchable data containers where it can be used to generate charts, alerts, and dashboards to help companies make optimal, data-driven decisions and root-cause error identification.