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A small studio, on purpose.
We work alongside your team, with official Splunk certification in architecture and administration and a personal approach: your platform is not just another project number to us. We don't sell licences or padded hours. We design platforms your team understands, operates and defends on its own.
Why Fernet?
Fernet is a herbal bitter drunk after a heavy meal, to help digest it.
It seemed like a good name for a consultancy that helps digest data: millions of events that, well distilled, boil down to what matters. Like the drink, the craft is part recipe and mostly patience: you choose the ingredients, let it rest, and discard what's left over until only the essential remains.
And yes, we enjoy drinking it too.
Four rules we don't negotiate.
The question comes first
We don't instrument anything without knowing what question it will answer. Data with no question is just cost.
Open standards
OpenTelemetry, the Common Information Model and MITRE ATT&CK. What we build with you doesn't depend on a single vendor, or on us.
Everything in writing
Architecture, decisions and configuration live in your repository, not in anyone's head.
We plan the exit
A project succeeds when your team can carry on alone. That exit is designed from the first week.
Fifteen seconds on what we do.
Our craft summed up in a short piece. With sound, if you can.
Video script and audio
A wall of log lines scrolls down the screen with a background hiss. “Millions of events. Every minute. All of them look urgent.” A magnifying glass sweeps the wall and stops on a line that lights up red, with a clean tone. “Only one matters. The rest is noise.” A red thread links that line to a spike in a metric and a section of a trace. “Log, metric, trace: the same story. Finding it is our craft.” The noise settles into a calm wave and a warm chord comes in. “Splunk. Observability. Cybersecurity. AI. Consultancy for teams that can't afford to fail.” The logo closes it out: fernet, consultores.
Certifications.
Official Splunk credentials earned by Fernando Mateo Ruiz. All of them can be verified on Credly, the platform Splunk uses to issue them.
Technical certifications
Splunk accreditations
Who we work with.
Operations, security and platform teams in organisations where downtime is felt, such as public administration, banking, energy, logistics or telecommunications.
We're comfortable in demanding environments, with segmented networks, no direct internet access and audit requirements. That's where good architecture makes the biggest difference.
We're headquartered in Limerick (Ireland) with an office in Madrid (Spain), and we work in both English and Spanish.
We hold official Splunk certifications up to Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect level. You can verify each one in the Certifications section.
- Want to work with us?
If you enjoy finding the signal in the noise, write to us at contact@fernetconsultants.com and tell us what you've built.
Let's grab a drink.
A coffee, or a fernet, and half an hour to understand your context. If we can't help you, we'll tell you so.
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