Splunk Enterprise Security Reviews

We have multiple use cases, almost 200 plus use cases. An example, travel activities where you log in.

The solution has plenty of features that are good.

I have been using the solution for two years.

It is a stable solution. 

In my experience, it has been scalable. We have five users using the solution in our company.

The installation is straightforward.

Deployment is not difficult but the lock sources and configurations can take time. We have a team of 15 technicians that do the deployments.

The solution is a little expensive.

I would recommend this solution.

I rate Splunk a six out of ten.

My reason for implementing it was just to learn more about the product. I wanted to learn about the Splunk programming language, how to pipe searches, add logs, verify the logs, create fields, extract data into fields, build dashboards, and to get hands-on experience with the product.

The Splunk programming language allows you to pipe searches into another searches.

What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract data and  add fields which improves building searches. This is not the case with Elasticsearch, where this needs to be done upfront.

I really dislike how Splunk sales and partner manager behaves. I have faced several sales model and partnership changes. Also, the last time I wanted to by a license ro built a SIEM solution, they had removed the ability to purchase a splunk subscription or license from their website. In the past, there was a web page calculator it was possible to by online, but now it instructs to contact sales.

The free version is limited to 500 megabytes and there is no alerting. Due to the missing feature on the Splunk webpage, I have ask Splunk Sales to purchase a license like 1Gyte a day or a license for max 2500 Euro/year to use it as a test or development instance for myself. Asking Splunk for a quote willing to pay for Splunk license to learn and to get used to the product, Splunk didn't get it managed to offer my a license neither arranging the partnership paperwork I have ask for. Sales people from Splunk where calling, each time after I left my details on ther trial download page. I explained my experience and concerns about Splunk in the past. All excuses received and promises that someone will contact me to solve the issues faced in the past, was leading in excactly nothing. Well Done Splunk.

Inflexible and expensive and I do not have much faith in the people working there because if someone is asking for a test environment and is willing to spend up to €2,500 a year, I can't understand why they are unable to provide a license. This could be a lost opportunity because they are not able to onboard a potential new partner.

They definitely need to boost their sales and partner program because it changes to often, where they are dropping partners and it is difficult to get in contact with somebody. This is something that needs to be improved.

I would like to see more SIEM functionality and embedded moduled such a ticket tool to make a end to end SIEM.

I have been using Splunk for a few weeks.

As I was using a test environment, I can't comment on scalability. It was just myself and a colleague who was using it as a test instance.

I have not been in contact with technical support.

I have worked a little bit with Elasticsearch. I also have an instance of SIEMonster running, and I'm trying to get used to it. I found that Splunk provided a good benefit compared to Elasticsearch.

With Elasticsearch, if you have already inserted the data then it's gone because you need to do the pre-filtering. Once you've inserted or ingested the raw data, using Logstash, for example, you are no longer able to build the fields such as IP address, hostname, username, and the other fields that you want to export. This unsorted, raw data that you have is really a drawback for Elasticsearch and some other products. This is something from Splunk that I consider to be a heavy feature, where you can just insert data and ingest it later on.

really fast and easy to install a test instance.

The pricing model is expensive and could lead into a budget nightmare based on the amount of data.

A better pricing plan would be an improvement.

I have done some research on LogRhythm, IBM QRadar, and ArcSight, but I don't have any hands-on experience yet.

I did a comparison for a customer two weeks ago and the outcome of my comparison was SIEMonster, effortable price model, even though it's a niche player, it's quite powerful. I also provided Splunk as a recommendation because it is a market leader, really powerful, and really good to use. I also recommended LogRhythm; it is also expensive but it's also really powerful, and the feedback of customers is really good.

With respect to Splunk, I would recommend it but when a customer is budget-driven then Splunk is not the solution. Money shouldn't be the question.

This is a solution that I could recommend for somebody who wants a really powerful product. It is not an end to end orchestrated SIEM yet.

This is a product that I would generally recommend, although I would not do so if the customer is really budget-driven.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

• IT Ops
• Security
• Compliance

Many IT groups and non-IT groups use the product to gain insights into their environments.

Splunk has significantly helped with aggregation and correlation of critical logs. Not having to grep on each individual server has made everyone more efficient.

Search and Dashboarding: Allows us to quickly search for an error and plot the results on a chart.

DMC should be a little more intuitive with better dashboarding. Seeing the cause of data flow can be tough to track down. 

I work with Splunk, as a contractor, so I use it in many different areas. Most often it is used to get performance insights on applications or servers. Recently, I have used it in more of an endpoint security mindset. 

My whole organization is built around Splunk. We provide Splunk PS to many different companies. If Splunk did not have such a good presence, we could not exist.

The best features would have to be the ability to ingest any data and display it in a way that anyone can understand.

It needs more thoroughly tested releases. Every new big version (6, 7, etc.) has had so many bugs that it makes me wary of customers upgrading right away.

We use Splunk for both monitoring and SIEM. Our security operations group uses Splunk to track user accounts which may have been compromised as well as follow those accounts through the organization.

Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status. Our security operations team has been able to use it to track where people login and what they do on those machines.

Personally, I like the capability of removing sensitive data before it goes into Splunk. I also like the ease with which dashboards can be created.

I like Splunk. The only thing which can be improved is that they are too subjective on whom their Splunk4Good initiative can be applied. They market it as you only need to be a nonprofit, but there is more to it.

There are many use cases for Splunk, we commonly use it for log management and analytics.

The most valuable feature of Splunk is the management and built-in workflows.

The analytics of Splunk could be improved.

I have been using Splunk for approximately four years.

Splunk is a highly stable solution.

I have found Splunk to be scalable.

We have 15 members of our organization that use this solution.

We used to support a few times and our experience was good. 

I would rate the support from Splunk a four out of five.

I have previously used RSA and I prefer Splunk.

The implementation of slunk is not straightforward. It is of a moderate difficulty level.

We used an integrator to do the implementation.

There is an annual license required to use this solution.

I have evaluated other solutions, such as IBM QRadar.

This solution has good technology.

I rate Splunk an eight out of ten.

It provides a lot of analytics with the underlying AI engine, and it is a lot easier than other solutions. There are some products that do automated AI-based detection and drawing up charts, but for network monitoring and all of the monitoring aspects, it is quite a nice tool.

It is very convenient for business users because they get more or less a lot of data readily available. If you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want.

If you have to do your own stuff, such as customized charts, it is a little bit more work, but once you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want. In terms of features, it should probably have the features that other competitors provide.

I have been using this solution for about three to four months.

I'm not sure. I do not really throw a lot of data in it, but it has been authenticated very nicely. It manages indexes and all of these things very nicely. I have not been privy to any production systems where you have millions of lines of log coming in every second. It works very well for the data that I have. It should be able to handle a lot of data. That's the whole purpose of it, and that's why Splunk has become so popular. It is an enterprise monitoring tool, and a lot of customers have Splunk in their ecosystem.

They have pretty much good documentation and good training. Their documentation is a lot better than Qlik Sense.

Splunk is an enterprise monitoring tool. Qlik Sense can do a little bit of log monitoring, but it is mostly used for dashboard reporting, whereas Splunk is more around monitoring and figuring out threats and all such things. They are different, but both deal with the data and allow you to create operation reports. 

Power BI is another tool that a lot of our customers use, but Splunk is quite often requested. It is also a lot more popular than Qlik Sense. We have a fair number of Qlik Sense customers.  

We usually sell Blue Prism to business users who are more concerned with the reporting aspect, which is why they would like to have easy tools like Qlik Sense in their ecosystem, but on the infrastructure side, it would be Splunk for enterprise monitoring.

Simple environments are easier to install. Because there is a lot of data log monitoring, once you have a production system, there is some amount of work in setting it up, especially making it SSL Secure and exposing it on the internet. There are multiple components behind it, so you need to ensure that all these things are set up correctly. These kinds of things are not required on a cloud platform because you are just uploading data. You really don't have much access to the backend.

Splunk also has a cloud version, which I haven't looked at, but I have used Qlik Sense's cloud platforms. With on-premises, you are in control of pretty much how you set up all the data that you are sending out. A lot of our customers have the issue that if it is a cloud platform, they cannot really send out the data to any of these cloud platforms. So, there are data residence and other issues.

It is economical than other solutions.

I would definitely recommend Splunk. It is quite a decent tool, and it is there in a lot of enterprises.

I would rate Splunk an eight out of ten.