My primary use case for Splunk is for log file visualization and monitoring alert management.
Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
This solution has an ability to do a quick search and immediately stop an incident from happening.
Pros and Cons
- "It has virtual visualization, and other products do not."
- "We had an instance when Splunk failed and it took us a couple of days to recover."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The way this solution has improved our organization is by its ability to do a quick search and immediately stop an incident from happening.
What is most valuable?
The auto-notification abilities are a huge benefit for us.
What needs improvement?
After a crash, the product takes a while to recover.
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For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Sometimes we have had instances when it will not run for a couple of days. There is room for improvement here.
What was our ROI?
There are lots of use cases and features that make Splunk a good choice for us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I have no opinion on the pricing of the product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We considered Datadog and Zabbix. In comparison to those options, Splunk has virtual visualization. Furthermore, it can be a host on our environment. Typically, we cannot deploy SaaS on our environment, but with Splunk, we can.
What other advice do I have?
When Splunk failed, it took time to recover. We had to recover it from a snapshot. It took a couple of days, and it was as if it had crashed. But, the instance was resolved.
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The search function for splunk is like a google search, you just enter and it will quickly show you the results
Pros and Cons
- "The search function for spam is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results."
- "Spam has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried any of them."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case of this solution is as a centralized lab collection.
What is most valuable?
The search function for splunk is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results.
What needs improvement?
Splunk has different plugins but by default, the logs are not organized, it shows that there are roll-ups that are out of the box. I saw many plugins that can help improve or extend Splunk's functionality but I haven't tried many of them.
It would be best if they can incorporate all security locks with minimal incidents.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's a little hard to scale on-prem.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. It took us one to two days.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's a little bit expensive for a small to medium enterprise.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We also looked at AlienVault.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. To make it a ten they should have more integration with outside vendors.
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Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Offers the ability to analyse huge amounts of sales data and accurate prediction of sales forecasting
Pros and Cons
- "The ability to analyze huge amounts of sales data and accurate prediction of sales forecasting is the most valuable feature."
- "Splunk needs to be able to hold more days of data. At the moment it only holds three months of data."
What is our primary use case?
We use a lot of sales metrics. We use machine learning models to provide sales forecasting. We create database connections and run a query on the database. The next step is to place the data into Splunk. We create indexes to get the data into the Splunk dashboard.
What is most valuable?
The ability to analyze huge amounts of sales data and accurate prediction of sales forecasting is the most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
Splunk needs to be able to hold more days of data. At the moment it only holds three months of data. It needs more views and colors within the dashboard and the ability to have the flexibility to create a user-defined panel.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Splunk for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Splunk is good enough.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I think it's good, other than the ability to hold more than three months of data is lacking.
How was the initial setup?
The setup of Splunk was easy.
What about the implementation team?
There are six people in my team working with Splunk. I am not sure about other users, but we are a mix of data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, IT, and software engineers.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Splunk as 8 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Java Technical Lead at a insurance company
The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation
Pros and Cons
- "It is easy to use in any environment."
- "The visibility is amazing with easy dashboard creation."
- "Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management."
- "Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now."
What is our primary use case?
- Log monitoring and alerts
- Looking up information
- Dashboards for nice, fast information about various application servers.
How has it helped my organization?
- It is easier to find problems and exceptions.
- It is used by any factor in the firm.
- Easy dashboards creation.
- The visibility is amazing.
What is most valuable?
- Regex for fields creation is great.
- High availability
- Easy to use in any environment.
What needs improvement?
Make it easier to include roles and user controls, as it is horrible now.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than five years.
How is customer service and technical support?
Not even Splunk's support guy, who came to our firm, could help with defining proper role management.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is a pretty high cost solution, but if your organization has the funds, it can bring many benefits.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Enterprise Architect and Business with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is easy to use, and easy to implement.
Pros and Cons
- "This solution helps us increase our productivity."
- "It is easy to use, and easy to implement."
- "I would like to see ability to master management. In terms of clustering, how it manages clustering needs improvement."
What is our primary use case?
It helps increase our productivity.
How has it helped my organization?
We are saving a lot of time by being in one place instead of several servers.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are understanding the visualization compass on the dashboard, as well as the reports on the dashboards.
What needs improvement?
I would like to have the ability to master the management of clustering.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
How was the initial setup?
It is easy to implement.
What other advice do I have?
It is easy to use, and easy to implement.
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