What advice do you have for others considering Splunk Cloud Platform?

I rate Splunk Cloud Platform eight out of 10. I would recommend this product.

I have no major gripes other than some detailed grievances, so I would rate it an eight out of ten.

New users should focus on the Splunk free courses. They are an excellent resource. If you are a customer, you should take up the search and reporting classes. That is probably going to be what 99% of people are using it for day to day. If you are a sysadmin user or someone setting up the instance, there are free classes for managing licenses and ingesting data. I would highly recommend them. The free classes are a great start, and if you think it would be valuable, take some of the paid classes as well. They are incredibly detailed. When it comes to security, we definitely have a stricter attitude when things are going to the cloud because they are not fully in our control. Going to the cloud is always a little bit scary, but we have put in a refined approach for the data going into Splunk. I have not made much use of federated search. I have come across it, but it is not something I have leveraged. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. What it does, it does well, but I do have qualms with it here and there. There are obvious features that are missing from time to time, but I am happy with what is there.

I rate Splunk Cloud Platform nine out of 10. I recommend ingesting data into the cloud if possible. Even if you have an on-prem environment, it still helps to ingest data into the cloud.

Splunk Cloud Platform has improved our company's incident response time. For example, if any event is ingested into Splunk, within less than a minute, we trigger an incident to the end user based on the assignment group in ServiceNow. There are many benefits attached to the tool in the areas of machine learning and predictive analysis. In Splunk ITSI, there is predictive analysis, which can be used for protection with the alert capabilities, especially if there is an alert storm coming up. My company can directly detect particular alerts from the trail to the attack and notify the end user about it. With the machine learning toolkit, my company does anomaly detection with the help of Splunk SIEM platform. With Splunk ITSI, my company does predictive analysis. The aforementioned area covers the two different platforms my company uses, along with two different approaches and the tool's machine learning capabilities. My company interacts with our consumers. For example, if I am a consumer of Azure products, I would want to onboard all the data from Azure, even if it consists of user data. I recommend that more space be set on a particular index so that Azure data can be used. My company has all data related to Azure about its users and the changes if you have a license or if you have Azure Event Hubs, including any other things that it may have. I recommend more space in Azure, but if it is a network-related application like Aruba, I recommend that it has a little bit less space compared to Azure. The scalability of Splunk Cloud Platform can impact our company's data management, though I recommend the space required for a tool based on the use cases. I am aware of the federated search features in the product. If a search is not running up, then my company needs to check whether any permission related to the search has any issue or if anything is going wrong, after which my company needs to check and fix those searches. I have not used much of the tool's federated search features. My organization monitors multiple cloud environments with the tool's help. It is easy to monitor multiple cloud environments using the product. For example, if my company takes into account Splunk ITSI with service analyzers, then we define how one service is related to GCP. One service will be under the cloud services offered by Azure, while another service will be related to AWS. My company can divide the services based on locations and KPIs. My company monitors the total locations of the cloud so that we can get more insights from the service breakdown, which is why I recommend the use of Splunk ITSI. I used to work more with Splunk ITSI, a reason why I recommend it to others, as it is easy to understand and handle, even if you have 1,000 or 20,000 applications. With Splunk ITSI service breakdown, it is very easy to handle applications. The visibility of the tool in multiple environments can be explained with the help of an example, where, if my company considers Splunk Cloud Platform, the visibility will be less compared to what we get from Splunk Enterprise. Splunk Cloud Platform is totally managed by Splunk's support team, so if anyone needs to do anything, my company needs to raise a request for a change in the tool, though we can modify a couple of services, like a couple of applications using ACS, which was introduced by Splunk. With ACS, if you want to update, create a token, or modify anything from the HEC token information, you can do it with the particular services offered by the solution. Considering the aforementioned area, I recommend that 30 percent of the work be done with ACS, and 70 percent of the work needs to seek assistance from Splunk's support team. Our company handles Splunk Enterprise, and we have 100 percent visibility on it compared to Splunk Cloud Platform. The integration of the product with other services is possible. I have integrated it with ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, and I can say that it has been okay till now. It is good to integrate Splunk Cloud Platform with other tools. If we take a cloud service like GCP into consideration as an example and say that it is not working properly, then there will be an incident directly assigned to the support team based on the integration with ServiceNow. If you want to notify all the consumers in a scenario where GCP is not working properly through particular notifications with Slack channel particular notifications, then one can inform all the thousand consumers in a particular company about it, and it is possible with a single integration. My company uses the tool for alert reporting. For example, if the top management of an organization is looking for the availability of websites, especially a couple of websites that are critical to their applications, then my company monitors such applications with the data in the report from the last thirty days or seven days, to ensure that availability of a particular website is 100 percent. If anything goes wrong as per the reports from the previous seven days, then the availability is reduced to 80 or 95 percent, which is based on how much time it was down, and it will be then notified to the consumer or top management, stating that the availability got reduced, and how there is need to fix a couple of applications in the back-end so that the availability can be increased. The top management will be made aware of the things that have been going on for the last seven or forty days. In general, a report is good for notifying the top management or consumers so that they can make decisions or check if their licenses or server capacity needs to be increased. With the alerting report feature, my company can be confident that the top management or consumers know about a particular issue in the tool that we can fix as soon as possible, but there will be a cost involved in doing so every time. If the consumer or top management is aware of the issues in the tool with the help of the alerting report feature, then they can make a decision. I am currently not aware of how the product has an impact on decision-making. The product has helped my organization with data compliance and privacy regulations since we were able to set up the terms and conditions with Splunk. In general, it is good when it comes to the terms and conditions revolving around the security part. Maintenance is required to upgrade the applications, so we need a downtime of no more than fifteen minutes. The product offers value in terms of resilience. Whenever my company faces difficulties, it is the solution we use for all our monitoring purposes. In terms of the extensibility of the product, I feel it is a good solution. Everything is supported by Splunk support, though it may take some time to find and resolve certain issues. If Splunk's support team resolves issues within a certain time frame, I can provide a nine out of ten rating for Splunk's technical team. Splunk Enterprise is totally handled by our company, so I can give it a nine out of ten. I recommend Splunk Enterprise to others, especially when compared to Splunk Cloud Platform. If any notifications are needed, it can be done with no downtime, and it can even be completed within a week. If we want Splunk's support team to do the same aforementioned procedure for our company, then it may take a little bit more time. I rate the overall tool a 7-8 out of 10.

I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform eight out of ten.

I rate Splunk Cloud Platform 8 out of 10. I would definitely recommend Splunk to others.

I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform a nine out of ten.

I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform an eight out of ten. We have around 150 users. No maintenance is required from our end. I recommend Splunk Cloud Platform. It helps monitor all the respective functions.

Splunk Cloud Platform is a really good tool for getting alerts and better information about incident management and maintenance. Because of the solution's complex setup, most alerts are set by developers or people who create multiple unnecessary alerts, creating alert fatigue. Compared to other systems, like Dynatrace, Splunk Cloud Platform is not a smart system for analyzing alerts. As a project manager, I oversee the process of contacting the concerned parties, knowing what needs to be monitored and why they need the alerting mechanism. I was not directly involved in the scripting and adding Splunk Cloud Platform in the back end. As business requirements change, Splunk Cloud Platform needs maintenance in terms of setting up different parameters, which is not an easy task. Everybody uses the Splunk Cloud Platform in a different way. I would advise users to share their experiences about technical difficulties in the forums and community. Sometimes, others might go through the same problem without much documentation, and sharing your technical problems might help others. Overall, I rate Splunk Cloud Platform a seven out of ten.

I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform an eight out of ten. There are numerous tools that offer real-time reporting and alerting capabilities. Splunk is indeed effective, but due to the prerequisite of registering logs beforehand, a delay is inevitably introduced. Therefore, while Splunk is suitable for real-time reporting alerts, it may not be as optimal as some alternative solutions. Resilience has added value and contributed to the improvement of our organization. This is highly significant. In most cases, the SOC team relies on the tool for issue mitigation and ticket resolution. Therefore, it is crucial for Splunk to remain consistently up-to-date and respond as quickly as possible. This holds immense importance. The extensibility is good, but there is room for improvement, especially in integrating certain logs. Enhancing the process of incorporating raised logs is possible. In most cases now there are limitations on log creation. Previously, a direct option existed to import logs. However, this process has been altered, requiring users to develop an add-on for log integration, leading to increased complexity. Furthermore, users are expected to have knowledge of Python. This can be problematic in cases where users lack such expertise. Therefore, this aspect could certainly be enhanced. For those who want to evaluate Splunk, it comes down to the volume of data. If they are dealing with a substantial amount of data flowing into their SIM, Splunk would be the superior option. Splunk effectively manages extensive datasets in comparison to other technologies. It also offers numerous additional functionalities, such as an enterprise security suite, assets, and identity framework. Moreover, it has undergone industry testing and has been employed in the field for a considerable duration. In contrast to other organizations, they provide a wealth of features.

We aren't using the solution across all cloud platforms. We use Azure. However, we would have the flexibility to gather insights from others. We just don't use that particular capability. Right now, the solution does not affect our decision-making. It's still a very new platform. We're not relying on it completely. It's a work in progress. We need some time with it, to build up trust with it. Splunk is great so far, however, we still need more time and it needs more of a presence in the market. Right now, in terms of compliance and privacy policy regulations, we limit the features that are not compliant with us. However, they are very flexible. We just use the features we can and block the ones that are unnecessary. It hasn't had an impact on our security posture. We have very detailed security layers and several processes and teams. We haven't had any real use cases for Splunk. It hasn't actively blocked anything. We already have what we need in place. I'd advise new users to check if this solution is reliable from a security point of view. Talk to Splunk about the cost as well. Splunk is really convenient for that. And whenever you deploy it in your infrastructure, make sure that the cloud providers or the on-prem solution that you are using are compatible with Splunk. We had issues in that some features that we were using in the cloud were not compatible with Splunk. So we had to make a lot of changes. That is something anyone who is trying to deploy Splunk needs to check - compatibility. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform a nine out of ten because it does a good job at what it does. I wish I could use the mobile app, but the rest of it works very well. The best value that I have received by attending Splunk conferences is finding out new things that I can do with my own job. Most of the time, it is disappointing because a lot of the new features have new applications that we have to buy, and I have no say in the purchase of new applications. However, there have been some new improvements in the applications that we already have, and I come for those updates. I am able to see if the new features in the existing applications are more useful to me.

Its ability to predict, identify and solve problems in real time is looking promising. We're looking into it now. I would rate Splunk an eight out of ten. It has a lot of features and enables us to focus only on our applications and logs. I don't need to worry about the infrastructure behind it. The best value I get from attending Splunk conferences is getting experts' help for specific use cases.

I give Splunk Cloud Platform a nine out of ten. Monitoring multiple cloud environments is never easy. We are looking forward to new features from our cloud partners, such as AWS Security Data Lake, Google, and Microsoft. These features will make it easier to integrate our cloud environments. Splunk Cloud Platform is currently the best solution for collecting data from multiple cloud environments. AWS has five million different ways to export data, and we need to use all of them to collect all of the security and IT-related data. Splunk supports all of these data sources. A year ago, I would have said that Splunk needed automated response, an easy-to-detect, easy-to-run, and manage business analytics platform, a user and entity-based business analytics platform that is integrated within the product, threat intelligence, and a current dashboarding tool. Splunk now has all of these features. A year ago, Splunk's competitors had these features, but Splunk did not. Splunk has since acquired or developed these features in-house. Very little in Splunk's product is not tightly integrated into the current releases. If someone is starting from scratch, meaning they are just rolling out a new security solution, and they do not choose Splunk, they are making a mistake. Splunk provides so much of everything that it is the best choice for most organizations. We perform daily maintenance on the solution. I advise new users to find someone who knows Splunk. Even a good technical person will not be able to do this on their own. They are not going to train them on day one. Good technical people who know Splunk are valuable assets, so they should seek them out and get them on the project.

I would rate Splunk Cloud a 6.5 out of 10, but plugged on time, I would give it 8.8 out of 10. The maintenance of Splunk is a bit difficult due to the time-consuming tech support. I would recommend Splunk. I cannot compare Splunk with any other SIEM solution because I have worked with many different solutions and logarithms, like the ManageEngine Endpoint Central, and Wazuh. I have used Splunk for two years and I can see Splunk as really the best SIEM solution that can be used for work. I totally recommend it even though I gave some negative feedback, it's because I am coming from a product perspective. We have to also take into consideration the security perspective. I am not talking about only visibility in which they should take a lot of care, but the way the solution is handling and even manipulating the data. This is the most valuable thing.

I rate the solution a five out of ten. The documentation available could be improved.

A company that wants to leverage Splunk should understand its environment first - including the organization, the network infrastructure, and the overall infrastructure. Then, based on requirements, they should go ahead with any SIEM solution. Splunk is kind of an expensive tool to have. Therefore, the company should be clear about what requirements they have, what they need, and whether they want to use Splunk. It is very crucial to understand your requirements and your network or your environment first before going ahead. I’d rate the solution eight out of ten. Overall, it's a good tool. It's a very intelligent tool. It definitely depends on how you are going to use it. However, I love the product. I love Splunk. I want to learn more about it as much as I can.

I rate Splunk Cloud eight out of 10. It's a good solution that can index data in a short time. That's one advantage of Splunk over other solutions. However, the support isn't good, and you can't customize the Splunk interface.

We've got a version of Splunk Cloud. I'm not sure of which version. I'd advise users to get more professional service days. You get five professional service days with the product, when you buy the license, usually. Definitely get at least ten more. You need to have some strategy before. You definitely need a strategy. Before you do your PS days, definitely have a look at your strategy and make sure you've arranged your questions rather diligently. Based on how you think you're going to use the system, where you are where you want to be, just box them into separate parts - security, infrastructure, and monitoring. It's going to make life a lot easier when you talk to consultants as the consultants are very, very knowledgeable. However, you need to ask the right questions. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

I recommend this solution for any company that has the money to buy it and rate it eight out of 10.

The solution is deployed on-cloud. I would recommend the solution to others since there are a couple of companies with many clients that are looking for Splunk Cloud, with which they are familiar. We must consider client demands when it comes to attracting projects. Even in India, most of the companies employ Splunk Cloud as the most prevalently used SIEM solution. Then comes QRadar, which is easier. So too, Splunk is less cost-effective than QRadar, although it is more in demand. There are a couple of companies with call centers that request Splunk Cloud. I rate Splunk Cloud as a seven out of ten.

Advice-wise, I do not really have much to say to potential users considering the solution as something to apply as an end-user. My job role is data organization so it might not be appropriate for me to give these opinions. This seems to me to have more to do with system functionality. But from my side, I am good with the product. Interface-wise, I think the product is good. Security-wise, it is all approved from the CSOs (Chief Security Officer) perspective. Enhancement-wise, we have to put in a lot of effort. The end-users who are working with the solution should know SQL. If they lack training in SQL, there will not really be a use case for them. Whatever the use cases we had for Splunk, we were able to make it work. Cost optimization is the only thing that needs to be reconsidered. On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate this product overall around seven, or somewhere between six to eight. Six to eight so make that around seven-out-of-ten.

I would rate Splunk a nine out of ten. The queries and pulling out the exact reports is a little challenging. I get complaints about it. I would like to see more reports or default out of the box reports. That would be more useful, useful, and then people can avoid writing inquiries.

I feel that Splunk Cloud is good as it is. It is the best tool on the market. My advice to anybody who is considering this solution is to start now and don't wait. Every day that you wait, you can be wasting time and money. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

My advice to anybody who is implementing Splunk Cloud is to dedicate the time and resources required to learn it and use it. Investigate the features. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Overall, I find that Splunk is pretty good. It is a very mature product and I can see that compared to when I used to five years ago as an end-user, they have been improving in every way. The interface is something that has become more user-friendly over time. When there is something missing, it is handled by another product from the vendor. For example, if you need to add predictive analysis then you use Splunk Phantom. There are many other SIEM tools on the market, such as IBM QRadar and ArcSight Logger. Splunk is comparatively more expensive but it has many features and good functionality. I definitely recommend it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.