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"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product.""The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."

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"It has definitely improved our organization by virtue of reducing the amount of overhead we would have had for those environments. Having to implement, maintain, or even update the existing stuff would have been extremely time-consuming. Splunk Cloud handles all of that for us. So it's definitely been helpful from that perspective. It's allowed them to maintain upgrades for far further than they are. Some of the hosts of that environment were still on version 7 so they could get upgraded feature parity.""he cloud performance is good.""The most valuable feature is we don't have to deal with any back-end server maintenance because the solution is cloud-based.""The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup.""It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use.""Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable.""The Splunk Cloud Platform has reduced our mean time to resolve. It has easily saved 20 to 30 minutes every time someone gets locked out. We get 10 or 15 instances per day where people get locked out. It definitely saves a few hours per day.""As compared to other tools, it is very easy. It is very easy to learn. It also integrates well."

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Cons
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective.""At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."

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"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good.""Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for.""I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help.""The training models can only be accessed for 30 days, even if it is paid training.""Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware.""The on-premises version of Splunk includes all the integrations, while the Cloud platform lacks certain integrations and is limited in terms of the number of supported apps.""Splunk Cloud Platform needs to be made more user-friendly because it's not user-friendly.""Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template. You have to define your own. If they could add predefined templates for different use cases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It wasn't cheap, but it was cost-effective compared to many of the other solutions."
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  • "The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
  • "The price is something that people complain about."
  • "The licensing costs depend on the state of your environment and the fees are paid on a monthly basis."
  • "The pricing model makes this an expensive solution."
  • "There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
  • "The cost of using Splunk Cloud Platform is high, but the value it provides is worth the investment."
  • "I am familiar with the pricing and licensing model a little bit. I am not sure about the particulars of the actual price that we have, but I do like the idea of going towards a more CPU-based approach rather than the ingest approach because it allows us the ability to ingest more data if we need it."
  • "It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
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    Top Answer:Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable.
    Top Answer:Considering its price point, it does not need any improvement. However, it does require manual implementation. There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem… more »
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    Overview

    Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They install as lightweight agents and send data from hundreds or thousands of machines to Logstash or Elasticsearch.

    Splunk Cloud is the industry’s only enterprise-ready cloud service for machine data, offering a 100% uptime SLA and standard plans from 5GB/day to 5TB/day. Watch this video to find out how you can accelerate time-to-value and stay focused on your core business using Splunk Cloud.

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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Real Estate/Law Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Pharma/Biotech Company8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    University6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 31 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Panther.

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