We collect almost everything that we log and push it into the Splunk Cloud Platform. That is pretty much our use case. It is mostly for our cyber monitoring tool, firewalls, normal cyber logs, Windows event logs, etc.
Splunk Administrator at a government with 11-50 employees
We have good visibility and we don't have to maintain the infrastructure
Pros and Cons
- "I like the fact that we do not have to maintain all the cloud infrastructure. That is probably the main thing about the Splunk Cloud Platform."
- "When one of my customers needs an app, and I am able to find that app on the Splunk base, I have to create a ticket and wait for five days for them to download the app into the cloud environment. That is probably one of the main things. It is painful because I have to wait to get that app in the cloud."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Splunk Cloud Platform has helped improve our organization's business resilience a little bit. It is a big organization, and I am just a little part of it. Its impact on the whole business has been a little bit.
We use ES for correlation, incident handling, and things like that. It reduces the mean time to resolve a little bit as compared to the other SIEMs that we were using. We are not using SOAR right now, but that is where we want to be.
What is most valuable?
I like the fact that we do not have to maintain all the cloud infrastructure. That is probably the main thing about the Splunk Cloud Platform. We do not have to worry about maintaining the infrastructure that is out there. We just push things up and maintain our infrastructure on-premises. This is important for us because we just do not have the manpower and resources to manage all the infrastructure.
We used to use another SIEM with which we constantly had to replace hardware and things like that, so it is a good benefit to have that cloud infrastructure there whether it is coming from a SaaS environment or we just build it in the cloud.
What needs improvement?
One thing that is a stickler for us is the ability to download apps. I guess it depends on what kind of license you have. It allows some of them if I want, but this is something that we need on a day-to-day basis. When one of my customers needs an app, and I am able to find that app on the Splunk base, I have to create a ticket and wait for five days for them to download the app into the cloud environment. That is probably one of the main things. It is painful because I have to wait to get that app in the cloud.
Another issue is that if I build my own app to some configuration, I cannot load it up there myself. They have to vet it, which is important but it takes a long time to do all that.
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For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for a little less than one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability does not apply to our environment. Because it is a cloud, scalability is relative to how much you can afford. It scales itself if your data increases because it is a cloud environment.
How are customer service and support?
Splunk's support is very good, but because the cloud environment was pretty new, I ran into a couple of stumbling blocks with the support for the Splunk Cloud Platform. However, it started to get a lot better. Currently, it is a lot better than when I first started. At that time, a lot of the support staff was probably new to the whole cloud environment, and I realized that. We were the first DOD department to go into the cloud, so it was tough in the beginning with their support. I would rate them a nine out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were using ArcSight. The decision to switch to Splunk did not come from me. It was the decision of the company itself. It was a requirement. We could not track the up/down status with the other SIEM. Splunk can do that better. That was one thing.
Another thing was the way Splunk can put things like MITRE ATT&CK into their platform. The way it handles rules and things like that makes it a lot better with the processing power. Splunk is search-based, whereas ArcSight is real-time. It fires the minute an event comes up, whereas Splunk has a separate way of doing it. They run a search every hour or so. It is not resource intensive. A lot of times, I can only turn on a minimum amount of rules, especially correlation rules, in ArcSight. I used to have about 300 or so in ArcSight. I probably have about 400 or 500 in Splunk, so the hardware processing power is a lot better.
How was the initial setup?
I was involved in its deployment. Its complexity level was 50/50, but that was expected because of the lack of training initially. We had an awesome team from Splunk that helped us out. They were there for us for at least a month. They helped us and then trained us on the environment. By the time they left, we were good to go.
What was our ROI?
The return on investment is not in a monetary sense. Things are a lot less stressful in our environment. We are able to see things that we were not able to see before. It gives us a little calm because we know if something is up or down. We are able to see things that we could not see before in other SIEMs. So, there is a reduction in the stress level.
We have seen a time to value. I can do plenty of things a lot faster than I could previously.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Sentinel, QRadar, and LogRhythm. All of them were very good SIEMs, but we had a lot of challenges when it came to getting them certified on government L5. IBM has its own private cloud. They do not use AWS. We did not have that issue with Sentinel, but it is not as robust. Even though it is at a high level in terms of industry-level SIEM, it could not meet our requirements. It is still a challenge. Sentinel is the only one that is a competition to Splunk if you talk about cloud, not on-premises. It is native to the cloud.
What other advice do I have?
It is awesome. I love it. Anything is possible in Splunk. I have gone through a lot of challenges with use cases. When I needed to figure something out, I got it resolved sooner or later. I either got Splunk support or I went to the community and looked it up. I have never run into anything that I could not do with Splunk. It is very good.
Overall, I would rate the Splunk Cloud Platform a nine out of ten.
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Manager Cloud Operations at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Makes searching for issues very easy
Pros and Cons
- "Splunk helped reduce our mean time to resolve by around 60%."
- "Support is the bigger issue when we have a problem. When we need their help, it takes weeks or months to actually get resolved."
What is our primary use case?
My primary use cases are for troubleshooting, monitoring, and anomaly detection.
How has it helped my organization?
Splunk helped reduce our mean time to resolve by around 60%. We have realized these savings through it solving problems and the proactive monitoring. But it comes with a huge cost. We have to evaluate other products that are comparable to Splunk in the market and see if they offer the same value.
It improved our business resilience.
Splunk has improved my organization by troubleshooting issues. When we have an issue, if we didn't have Splunk, it could take hours or days to figure out where the problem is. With Splunk, it only takes hours or minutes sometimes.
It saves us money by changing our product or process to work in a better way. Splunk is great. It has a lot of value ads and features. But overall, Splunk Cloud is expensive compared to other products in the market.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the search options. Our infrastructure is huge so if an issue happens, it's hard to find where it is. That's where Splunk comes in handy. You just go to their user interface and do a Google-type search. Just put in a keyword, search it, and you'll figure out where it is. If you have thousands of servers, it's very hard to see where the issue is and where the transaction is logged. Splunk makes it very easy. That's the best part of Splunk.
I would rate Splunk's ability to provide business resilience by empowering oneself a seven out of ten. Whenever we have an issue, Splunk is handy. We have a lot of monitoring in place so if an issue happens, our monitoring helps proactively figure out the issue, and in that way, we can make sure that our environment and infrastructure are up and running, and our customers don't have any issues.
What needs improvement?
It's improved a lot since we began using it. We have been seeing issues, but they get resolved by working with the support. It's just getting expensive with time.
Support is the bigger issue when we have a problem. When we need their help, it takes weeks or months to actually get resolved. To date, we have cases open for two or three months without a resolution. Support is the worst part.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Splunk Cloud Platform for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's stable and highly available. We had issues, but all of these types of platforms have.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability depends on what kind of license you have. If you have ingest-based licenses and you hit your cap, I think they still let you ingest more, but then you have to work with your account team and buy more licenses so you don't lose data. It's scalable, but not automated because it has its own license limitations.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate support a four out of ten. The reason is that they are not proactive, they are reactive. If we notify them about an issue, they are supposed to monitor their infrastructure and tell us that there is an issue and that they are working on it. But rather than doing that, we have to do that, and after doing that, it takes time for them to work on it and solve the problem.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
My company previously used a custom, on-premises solution. Splunk was already implemented when I started at my company.
We're asking ourselves now why we use Splunk. Our next step is to go out and evaluate other products in the market that may be not as costly and offer the same feature set.
How was the initial setup?
It's a cloud, it's all managed service. The only thing we had to do is onboard our applications, which is something I do every day.
It's very straightforward and very easy. You only need to configure and get data and you can be onboarded within minutes. We don't have to go through a lot of configurations, manual steps, or training.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
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IT Engineer at a venture capital & private equity firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Integrates seamlessly, improves security posture, and provides visibility
Pros and Cons
- "The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial."
- "The current visuals on the dashboard could be more impactful."
What is our primary use case?
To gain deep visibility into our entire cloud infrastructure, we deployed the Splunk Cloud Platform. This tool allows us to monitor, analyze, and investigate all aspects of our cloud environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Splunk Cloud Platform integrates seamlessly with other systems, including Slack. This allows us to receive real-time alerts triggered within the tool. We can then analyze the output and take timely action to resolve the issue, ensuring continued security.
Splunk Cloud Platform improved our security posture. We could easily and efficiently obtain detailed analyses of any log, including UPC flow logs and others, promptly. The benefits of Splunk Cloud Platform were visible within two days.
Splunk Cloud Platform does a good job helping to maintain the complaints and privacy regulations within our infrastructure.
Splunk Cloud Platform excels at correlating data from a wide range of sources, including applications, websites, and servers. It efficiently handles the challenge of managing large volumes of data. This has secured our data and demonstrably improved our security posture.
What is most valuable?
The ability to correlate data and then present it in a meaningful and valuable way is crucial. Splunk offered this functionality, providing us with insights into threats, vulnerabilities, and all the identity information we fed into it. We sought a SIEM tool because we lacked a solution that could effectively analyze recent data. We needed a tool that could not only ingest our data but also correlate it and present it in an easily understandable format.
What needs improvement?
The cost of Splunk Cloud Platform is high and has room for improvement.
The current visuals on the dashboard could be more impactful.
For how long have I used the solution?
We conducted a POC of Splunk Cloud Platform 6 months back.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
During our POC, I did not encounter any stability issues with the Splunk Cloud Platform.
I would rate the resilience offered by Splunk Cloud Platform 8 out of 10.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of Splunk Cloud Platform 9 out of 10.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment was straightforward. Two people were required for the deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The Splunk Cloud Platform is expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Splunk Cloud Platform performed well in the POC but the cost was higher than other tools.
We chose Palo Alto Networks over Splunk due to its combined advantage of cost-effectiveness and superior threat analysis capabilities.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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SIEM Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Offers excellent visibility, and cloud performance, and requires zero maintenance on our end
Pros and Cons
- "he cloud performance is good."
- "Splunk should offer various options for real-time monitoring."
What is our primary use case?
We use Splunk Cloud Platform to monitor our environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Monitoring multiple cloud environments is made easy with the Splunk Cloud Platform due to its fast ingestion and data recovery times.
Splunk's visibility into multiple environments is excellent. I have found that a hybrid environment works the best, as the login portion remains on-premises while the rest is in the cloud. This reduces the maintenance required on-premises.
There are two types of integration. The first involves bringing something into Splunk, while the second entails moving something out of Splunk. Bringing data into Splunk is relatively straightforward, with multiple options such as RAS, SysLog, and Splunk's built-in functions. However, exporting data from Splunk is more challenging and not as straightforward as the process of bringing data into Splunk.
Splunk Cloud Platform has influenced our decision-making processes. Splunk is primarily employed for security purposes; thus, it excels particularly in SIM. It encompasses an asset and identity framework that effectively gathers information about an organization's assets and individual identities, encompassing all users. Therefore, when considering Unified Business and SIM, Splunk proves to be highly proficient.
What is most valuable?
The cloud performance is good.
Not having to perform any maintenance because it is handled by Splunk saves our administrators time which is valuable.
What needs improvement?
Splunk should offer various options for real-time monitoring. If we could enhance the speed of data ingestion or data retrieval, that would be an added advantage. Additionally, there is room for improvement in SaaS-to-SaaS integration. I believe that reintroducing HTML dashboards would be beneficial, as they provide dedicated web features. This, in turn, gives users the flexibility and freedom to create custom dashboards more easily.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Splunk Cloud Platform for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of the Splunk Cloud Platform as an eight out of ten. We still encounter some lagging and errors, but not as much as with the on-premises deployment.
How are customer service and support?
I occasionally get in touch with Splunk technical support, usually regarding data onboarding. These include routine activities like installing or uninstalling applications, as well as making changes to existing ones. On average, we submit at least one ticket per week to them.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used many tools including Elastic, Grafana, Tableau, and Sumo Logic.
Splunk is indeed superior in many cases, but other tools are also making progress to catch up, with Elastic being one of them. They have begun developing their own SIM offering, complete with its own SIM features. Similar to Splunk Cloud, Elastic also has its Elastic Cloud Stack. Some of the features provided by Elastic seem to outperform Splunk. Therefore, there is room for Splunk to enhance these aspects. As for pricing, it could be more competitive, considering that other tools also provide the freedom to choose the Cloud Stack. Although Splunk offers this flexibility, the process often involves extensive discussions, making it less adaptable compared to other tools.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is somewhat complex regarding the CI/CD pipeline, and Splunk manages the deployment. Splunk provides a feature called ACS, which enables us to manage the deployment ourselves if desired, but it's simpler to have Splunk handle the deployment on our behalf.
The deployment took around one month and required ten people from Splunk's DevOps team.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was completed by Splunk.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is high for small organizations. The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Splunk Architect Application Software Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Resilient, helps with decision making, and is very fast
Pros and Cons
- "The cloud is very fast."
- "Support could be improved."
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution to create alerts for different servers. I also create dashboards in Splunk.
How has it helped my organization?
We have a lot of servers. It was hard to track which were down as we didn't have a monitoring platform. Splunk changes that. It receives data and if it doesn't get any data, it creates an alert so we are notified if something is down.
We also use it for making reports to help make management easier.
The monitoring of servers for high CPU utilization helps us out. If there are offline servers or high utilizations, we can see the incidents and optimize our processes.
What is most valuable?
The cloud is very fast. We have a lot of data in our Splunk instance and it isn't slow in any way.
The maintenance is good. We have good support if we have queries or issues. With on-premises Splunk, if we ran into issues, we'd have to figure things out ourselves. With the cloud version, it's easier to get support.
We can monitor multiple cloud environments, including Azure and AWS.
It can be difficult to monitor cloud platforms. We are integrating more cloud servers and patching data sources from those servers. It's very easy to use Splunk and have everything go to the dashboards.
We get good visibility into multiple environments. We can easily search from Splunk Cloud to our on-prem or AWS directly. We also do not ingest the data in order to see it.
We can easily integrate with other systems. It's very helpful. We can leverage Splunk to gather any specific reports we want with this integration capability.
The reporting is very good. Every month we have a call with Splunk personnel and they'll show us reports to show high usage for search, for example. From our side, we can change or update in order to optimize our systems.
The cloud has helped us with decision-making. It helps make maintenance decisions very easy.
It's very resilient.
What needs improvement?
Testing can handle a lot of logs, however, we are unsure if the speed will be affected.
When we are using OneDrive or SharePoint, as a developer, we'd like to have better integration between the two.
There are some issues with Splunk blocking some shared mailboxes.
Support could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The Splunk cloud is very stable. I've never experienced crashing. If there are issues, they will notify us. It doesn't take long to resolve issues at all. Things tend to be resolved in an hour or so.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is very scalable.
I haven't experienced the extensibility, or the ability to extend the system, however, my understanding is that it is very good. We have yet to upgrade it.
How are customer service and support?
When we have high-priority tickets, it's hard getting help efficiently. We'd prefer to call. It takes time to get someone to help. We've had to submit tickets via the portal, and they asked us to call instead. It's hard to get above P1.
It would be ideal to get a specific phone number or email so that we do not have to wait hours to get help.
We do have different Splunk support services where we talk to them bi-weekly, and at that point, we can talk about any high-priority issues. They do try to help us with queries.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Splunk on-premises.
How was the initial setup?
I do not have any experience with the initial setup. Since it is a cloud deployment, Splunk handles the maintenance mainly.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm not aware of the exact pricing. That said, my understanding is that it is very reasonable. However, every application has a price. We need separate licenses for everything. They don't have any bundles.
What other advice do I have?
For the first few years, I used the solution on-premises, and then I moved over to the cloud.
I use the classic dashboard; I don't yet use the studio.
It has not yet affected our security posture.
We have not yet explored federated search.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
If a user is planning to use the Cloud Platform is to consider the pricing. It's fast to access and there is no downtime. It's very good from a user perspective. I'm happy with it. It's helpful.
Users should work to maximize the power of Splunk to get the most out of it. Leverage the applications, including security.
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Automation Developer at TNS
Reduces infrastructure overhead, but the process for custom apps can be streamlined
Pros and Cons
- "Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable."
- "They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
What is our primary use case?
On Splunk Cloud, I mainly look for errors in applications or issues that come up with our internal applications. I have also used it to create dashboards and display customer data to customers in an effective way so that they have insights into their data.
How has it helped my organization?
There is less overhead now for infrastructure management. There are fewer issues that we have to worry about on the infrastructure side. This has freed up more of our resources' time to work toward initiatives on the Splunk platform itself. It is hard to measure the time savings. If one resource was working on it, that resource could save anywhere between 15 to 20 hours a week.
It must have reduced our MTTR, but I have been with Splunk for as long as I have been in my current environment, so I do not have anything to compare it with.
It helped improve our organization’s business resilience. The solution helps us find where errors are and potentially where threats are a lot faster. We can more effectively push out alerts not only to our team but also to the teams across the enterprise. It is nice to have on hand.
It is quite effective at helping us identify problems very quickly. We do not participate in real-time searches within our Splunk environment, but close to real-time is possible, and it is quite effective.
What is most valuable?
Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable. Being able to deploy within the cloud and not having to manually manage our configs on the infrastructure side and set up our own architectures has been the biggest help.
Other than that, the new Dashboard Studio has been a pretty big win, but I do not know whether that is more cloud-specific or not. Dashboard Studio has a cleaner look for customers that want to see their data but not necessarily search. For the customers that want to see their data, having an easy and effective way to drag and drop to see where things are going to be if they want to change them has been pretty beneficial.
What needs improvement?
They can streamline the process of creating custom apps. I do not have a lot of experience with it. It was not very difficult for me to do so, but there is probably a better way to present the ability for people to push their own custom apps to the platform and go through Splunk's manual and automatic reviewing process.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not seen any downsides when it comes to uptime and availability. Being in the cloud reduces downtime, especially compared to being on-prem where if something goes wrong, you will have to go in and fix that infrastructure yourself. I have not necessarily seen significant downtime with Splunk Cloud or on-prem at this time.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I quite enjoy the fact that if we need more indexes or search heads, it is very easy to plug and play with Splunk Cloud. With the infrastructure model that we had before, we would have to go in, set up a new search head out to the cluster, and add a new indexer to the cluster if we needed it. It will have more benefits going forward as we move more and more into the cloud.
How are customer service and support?
I have worked with Splunk support, and I would rate them an eight out of ten. It depends on where you are and what project you are working on at the time. It would be quite beneficial to work with them if you have a specific project that you are working on, and they have some insight into it. I do not work with support too often myself. Usually, one of our Splunk Infrastructure managers works with them, but there is always room for improvement. Availability in terms of making the time to gain insight into specific projects and problems that we are having is an area that can be improved.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
My company has been with Splunk for quite some time now. We are well integrated at this point, and we are in the process of migrating over to Splunk Cloud specifically. We used Splunk on-prem for a while. We are currently in a hybrid situation, and we are making our way toward being completely on the cloud.
How was the initial setup?
I help from time to time with the migration process, but I am not necessarily in charge of the total migration functions that we currently have today. The most I have done in terms of deploying to the cloud was creating a custom alert action for the cloud environment, which is one of my biggest contributions so far. I am not completely in charge of it, but from time to time, I will assist in the migration process. It is a bit of a learning curve, but once you get more and more familiarized with the cloud and how to benefit from it by using features like federated search, it becomes easier. It is somewhere in between in terms of complexity.
What was our ROI?
We would have seen an ROI. I do not have a specific number, but assuming that we did not have Splunk Cloud, we would have to manage our own infrastructure. Not having to manage nearly as much infrastructure and not having to have the personnel to manage that infrastructure on a regular basis, frees up that time for them to do what they are really designed to do. This has definitely added value.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am a little bit familiar with the pricing and licensing model. I am not sure about the particular pieces of the actual price that we have, but I do like the idea of going towards a more CPU-based approach rather than the ingesting approach. This CPU-based approach gives us the ability to ingest more data if we need it.
What other advice do I have?
The biggest value that I get from attending Splunk conferences is the insights from everybody here. You have people from many different companies doing very different things and deploying very different models within their different Splunk instances. You get an idea of where everybody lands and maybe grab some ideas that you would not necessarily have thought of by looking at it from the inside of someone who is in a completely different field than you are.
There is definitely a big difference between Splunk Cloud and on-prem. For me, one of Splunk on-prem's biggest features is being able to deploy my own custom applications internally, which is something that is a bit of a process with Splunk Cloud. So, given the information that I have, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
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Systems Operations Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Shows us valuable information in an easy-to-understand way
Pros and Cons
- "Splunk reduced our mean time to resolve by 30%. If an application starts misbehaving, we send logs to Splunk and check to see what's going on and see what's happening."
- "Since I work on data collection from external sources and send them into Splunk, I miss its ability to collect that data through REST API applications."
What is our primary use case?
My role is in observability.
Some of our internal systems send data into Splunk Cloud. We had dashboards for our team's KPIs. We can check to see how fast the team reacts to events. Those reaction times a recordreed and sent to Splunk. From there, we can draw some dashboards. We can check to see who is doing well and who needs to improve. The power Splunk admins started moving into the Cloud.
The primary use cases are for team KPIs, log analytics, and error search. We would look for the relation of different events and draw dashboards to see how bad things were veering off from the timeline that we wanted to see.
How has it helped my organization?
Splunk helped us shape the picture of our team and enabled management to see who should be rewarded and who should be coached. It helped outline where KPIs were not being met. We could sit down and discuss what happened, and why it did not go as planned, and then we could make improvements in the processes. It helped us draw a broader picture of the entire team's capabilities.
With Splunk, everything is centralized, everything is in one place. We don't have to scramble and approach Splunk admins where to look.
In terms of networking, we managed to build good dashboards. We have a lot of firewalls and rules. If a new service comes up, if they don't have a firewall and nothing works, we can look at the Splunk dashboard and see the particular network flow and see if firewalls are blocking traffic. This is a Splunk function that people are happy and excited about. It shows us valuable information in an easy-to-understand way.
What is most valuable?
It's very important for us that Cloud Platform offers end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment. More and more functions are moving to the cloud, so it's not only for observability to see the system, but it's also for management and senior management to see that all of their applications are running as intended. If we try to spread out applications through multiple vendors, multiple regions, access groups, and whatnot, it becomes pretty important. It may become a challenge because of that spread. It brings resilience, but it also makes it more difficult to look after everything.
We want to achieve having everything in a single view. Senior management wants to make sure that everything is running well. The application team's developers want to have a granular review.
Splunk reduced our mean time to resolve by 30%. If an application starts misbehaving, we send logs to Splunk and check to see what's going on and see what's happening.
The dashboards are the most valuable feature. It's all of the information in one place. We can build it ourselves, so we can make it the way we like.
What needs improvement?
Since I work on data collection from external sources and send them into Splunk, I miss its ability to collect that data through REST API applications. I would like the ability to configure an endpoint, set it on Splunk, and set a schedule for it to pull information every ten minutes, and pull this endpoint information. I could search through it, look for keywords, restructure the data that's brought back to me, and then store it in the Splunk index. This is not available and if it is available, it is bare bones. I would like Splunk to have this function by default.
For how long have I used the solution?
We started using Splunk seven years ago. We started with Splunk on-prem and then moved to Splunk Cloud.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I never had any stability issues.
How are customer service and support?
I use support rarely but so far, it's been fine.
I would rate it an eight out of ten. My cases weren't that critical so it took a little longer to solve.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have not achieved cost efficiencies by switching to Splunk. There will be some cost discussions in cost optimization.
We log a lot of data which may have impacted our licensing cost.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We also looked at Datadog but it wasn't cost-efficient to log with two tools.
What other advice do I have?
We monitor multiple cloud environments. I heard that it's more straightforward to monitor multiple cloud environments with AWS. Azure doesn't work as intended, there were some issues collecting data from it.
I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform seven out of ten. I really miss REST API abilities.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Head of Cloud at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Great support, good pricing model, and good integration with various clouds
Pros and Cons
- "Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
- "There can be more modules and more integration with other areas in the cloud and on-prem. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that."
What is our primary use case?
I used it in my last organization for monitoring, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention.
We wanted to take preventative actions so we implemented it.
How has it helped my organization?
The monthly security reports were detailed, and we got to know about a lot of vulnerabilities that we did not know about before.
It integrated well with other systems and applications in our environment. I would rate it a ten out of ten in terms of integration.
Splunk Cloud Platform had a good impact on decision-making processes in our organization.
It was helpful for data access for compliance and privacy regulations. I would rate it a nine out of ten in this aspect.
Splunk Cloud Platform had a very good impact on our organization’s security posture. The resilience that it offered was very important because we were dealing with client data.
For reporting, a lot of manual intervention was required to create the reports, but after that, it worked well.
What is most valuable?
Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable.
We had multiple cloud environments. It was easy to monitor multiple cloud environments using the Splunk Cloud Platform’s dashboard.
What needs improvement?
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. I am not sure whether it includes network devices and things like that.
For how long have I used the solution?
I worked with this solution for one year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable. I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability and extensibility.
How are customer service and support?
I got great support from them every time. I would rate them a ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were not using any similar solution previously.
How was the initial setup?
It was deployed on a public cloud. Its setup was quite complicated. A lot of steps were involved in implementing it.
What about the implementation team?
We had some engineers from Splunk to advise on a couple of things.
We had three people involved in the deployment. They were all cloud engineers.
It did require maintenance. We had one person involved in the maintenance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It was a good model.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated other solutions, but I do not remember the names. I know there was one from AT&T.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Splunk Cloud Platform a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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