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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring pros and cons

Vendor: Splunk
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring efficiently collects, monitors, and evaluates logs, facilitating detailed analysis and retention for subsequent use.
It offers comprehensive security insights, enhancing visibility over various security measurements in an environment.
Custom dashboards can be created to monitor virtually any aspect, which simplifies data management and operational oversight.
The initial setup is straightforward, making it accessible for quick deployment without complex processes.
Its ability to monitor multiple cloud and on-prem environments through a single platform streamlines operations and improves system management.

CONS

In the next release, more integration with other solutions is desired.
There are complaints regarding the cost, being extremely expensive to run and expand, comparing unfavorably to other solutions.
The deployment and implementation can be quite complex and more user-friendly.
More EDR functionalities and improvements in security are needed.
There is a lack of standard use case visibility, especially for directly monitoring network devices.
 

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Pros review quotes

Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
The most valuable thing that we have seen within our group is the ability to ingest all this raw data and have it organized in a certain way so that different groups can get effective alerting from this massive amount of raw data that is out there.
reviewer2500065 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 13, 2024
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provided our customers with visibility into their overall infrastructure.
reviewer2239860 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
It is a great resource for us because we have so many different data sources and to be able to aggregate that and put it through a concise dashboard or an alert really helps.
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Munish Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 12, 2024
Splunk's GUI and dashboard capacity are the most valuable features of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
reviewer2499615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 12, 2024
The tool's stability is great.
it_user831168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 10, 2019
The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs.
reviewer1114944 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2020
The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything.
Avery Deloach - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool.
ON
Apr 12, 2022
It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data.
Peder Illum - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise.
 

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Cons review quotes

Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers.
reviewer2500065 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 13, 2024
A wide variety of logging makes log onboarding difficult.
reviewer2239860 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that.
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Munish Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 12, 2024
There's no standard use case available where you can see the utilization of the number of use cases I have.
reviewer2499615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 12, 2024
There is not a lot of support for the tool's on-premises version, especially since everything is on the cloud.
it_user831168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 10, 2019
The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it.
reviewer1114944 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2020
The cost needs to be re-examined. It's extremely expensive to run. It's also expensive to expand. That's the number one complaint all of my customers have when it comes to Splunk. It's way too expensive compared to other solutions.
Avery Deloach - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features.
ON
Apr 12, 2022
The deployment can be quite complex.
Peder Illum - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 20, 2023
It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it.