Splunk Enterprise Platform is a basic monitoring tool used for application performance monitoring, database monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring. Currently, I use the solution for application monitoring and security monitoring. I use the tool to monitor security breaches or suspicious activities.
The solution is very good for monitoring compared to other tools. It provides an accurate solution. We used to get a free trial of around 60 days to test and get a good experience on Splunk.
The solution's license cost is high and can be improved. There are some limitations on data onboarding if you have huge data.
I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for three to four years.
Compared to other monitoring tools, Splunk Enterprise Platform provides good stability.
I haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s scalability.
Splunk ITSI is very good for support, which includes getting an incident number and working on it.
We need to integrate Splunk Enterprise Platform with other tools, which provide some security events. After integrating, you get the logs from that application's API. Once you get those logs, we will create a code per the business requirements and create an alert, report, or dashboard, whichever is needed.
Splunk Enterprise Platform works based on apps installed in Splunk. For example, if you want SQL data to get into Splunk, you need to install an SQL database plugin on the Splunk server. That plugin will capture the logs related to an SQL database with Splunk. After that, we write a query, pull out the data we need, and provide knowledge objects.
Visualization is very good in Splunk Enterprise Platform. The solution has good visualization elements like bar graphs, pie charts, line graphs, single visualizations, and maps. I would recommend the solution to other users.
Splunk Enterprise Platform is a very good tool for monitoring your day-to-day activity logs. This will eventually help you create reports or dashboards to monitor the business's progress.
Overall, I rate the solution seven and a half or eight out of ten.