Splunk Enterprise Platform Reviews

We use the solution mainly for security operations. We receive logs from different log sources.

The product is very easy to use. We just have to run the agent and collect the log. We don't have many delays or problems. We faced an issue once or twice when there was a network issue and when the system was rebooted. The percentage of issues is very low compared to the overall deployment. It is 0.001%.

The solution supports our organization's security and compliance monitoring very much. We rely on the platform to detect abnormalities and to perform searches. If someone brings a compliance issue, we request logs from the platform to determine whether it happened. We use the tool’s search feature and Intel's machine learning platform to conduct our analysis.

We don't face any issues in real-time monitoring. There is no latency. We have options to create our own dashboards. The GUI is very simple. It's a simple platform. It is very easy to use.

The product doesn’t have prebuilt dashboards. It would be great if the product provided prebuilt dashboards. For example, we allowed some devices into our network through VPN, but there is no dashboard to combine two log sources and understand which user has logged in. So, we created our own dashboard with the available Splunk searches.

It’d be good if the solution provided more prebuilt dashboards and released them on the app platform. Then, we can deploy the dashboards straight away. Also, if the tool provides additional dashboards, we can reduce the resources needed to develop them. Since Splunk has overall visibility all around the globe, it can give better suggestions on the dashboards that we must use and how to project the data to the management.

We faced some issues in parsing when the load was too much. If we have a 100 MB log source, 80 MB will be parsed correctly, but we face issues with 20 MB. We raised a support ticket, and the support team suggested we increase the time interval between sending the logs to the Splunk forwarder to handle the processing correctly.

I have been using the solution for two years. I am using the latest version of the solution.

The tool is stable enough. In my demo environment, I used my own physical machines to run it. I was able to ingest as many log sources as I wanted within the data limit, and it did not have any issues. The search is very responsive when compared to the other platforms. There was no lag.

Splunk has been supporting free text searches for two years. We can query anything out of the box without specifying any indexes. We can perform free-text queries. Usually, it takes very little time to produce the results if the data set is too small. If the data set is too large, the product suggests we finetune our search, and it provides us with hints on which indexes to specify. It has three different options: Fast mode, Push mode, and Smart mode. We can switch the modes to get results quicker. Later, we can change the mode back to do a deeper analysis.

Scalability is not an issue for SMBs and moderately big companies. When we went beyond certain limits, like 700 Gbps or 800 Gbps, we faced some issues with the engine. So, we split up the platform and diverted some of the logs into different indexes. It solved the problem. Up to 500 Gbps per day is okay. When we go beyond that, a single instance cannot handle it. We need to split it up.

This issue was only with the on-premise version. We do not face such issues in the cloud. When customers wanted to renew their subscriptions, we suggested they move to the cloud. On-premise, we have to manage our indexes and searches, but in the cloud, it's done by the vendor. It's a plug-and-play process. Splunk automatically takes care of parsing. We have more than 30 customers.

The technical support is very good. The team supported us even during the Christmas holidays. The support engineer walked us through every step. The team is always reachable. We never had issues while contacting them.

I built some demo environments for my practice since Splunk was new to me two years ago. I used the free license. It was a pretty straightforward setup. I did not find any difficulties in setting up my lab environment. The deployment can be done within 15 minutes.

The return on investment is very good. It's very easy to use. Many of our customers decided to continue using Splunk because they have invested much in the training modules, the analysts are familiar with the tool, and it's very easy to search. Open-text queries are the best in Splunk. It is easy for our customers to perform the search. It's very lightweight compared to other solutions.

Our customers pay for the licenses. It’s bundled together in a yearly subscription.

There are some problems in managing the tool when it exceeds certain limits. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is a powerful application that offers extensive visibility into events, notable occurrences, and correlations, providing robust capabilities.

The valuable feature is the onboarding of various logs using different methods. Additionally, it excels in content development and use case creation. I want to learn about upcoming technologies like Splunk Cloud and Azure integration. These platforms offer extensive capabilities for visualizing and manipulating data according to our requirements. Splunk's proficiency in field extractions and onboarding logs from diverse sources makes it highly capable. Its logging addition and parsing capabilities are particularly noteworthy.

In Splunk Enterprise Platform, while the dashboard feature is powerful, it does have limitations in terms of the number of parameters that can be included in one dashboard. However, it's important to note that these limitations can be addressed through effective dashboard design and optimization techniques. Despite these constraints, Splunk offers extensive capabilities for creating insightful dashboards that can visualize relevant data effectively.

Splunk excels in providing accurate and valuable alerts and reports. These features are crucial in reducing manual efforts, minimizing human errors, and expediting incident resolution processes. With Splunk's alerting and reporting functionalities, users can fine-tune alerts, apply filters, and include necessary information for thorough investigation and analysis. These capabilities contribute significantly to enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making within organizations.

I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for five years.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

Scalability is very flexible. Without the Splunk support, we can deploy and scale up.

The responsiveness of the support is very good. They will ask you if you are raising any P2, P1, or major incidents so they'll help us with immediate and accurate results.

The initial setup is straightforward , with detailed deployment steps outlined in their documentation. Additionally, the Splunk community is a valuable resource where users can ask questions and receive expert solutions. 

Splunk Enterprise Platform does not have a few application add-ons. Therefore, when we aim to integrate log sources from new or important ones that Splunk lacks add-ons for, we resort to developing custom add-ons. While this approach allows us to proceed with our work, it requires significant human effort and increases the likelihood of errors. Moreover, troubleshooting becomes time-consuming under these circumstances. Ideally, Splunk would offer add-ons for every possible application, significantly improving our efficiency and effectiveness.

The Splunk Enterprise Platform offers excellent visibility through real-time monitoring. Whenever any data matches our client's SQL code, it triggers an immediate alert, allowing us to respond to incidents swiftly. This capability is highly beneficial during any incident, making Splunk an invaluable tool.

There are various components, such as Universal Forwarder, Indexer, and Search Head. These components are relatively straightforward to set up. However, when implementing a distributed environment or setting up clustering, Splunk offers robust capabilities. Additionally, managing data storage sizing is also seamless.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I have a variety of use cases. My company uses it for cloud-related operations, anomaly identification, and threat detection.

It's been very useful in regard to security information and threat management (SIEM). Splunk is a valuable tool for my organization.

The timestamp indexing and the easy-to-use visualization features are the most valuable features for data analysis.

Moreover, the dashboard and visualization features have made a big difference. We can quickly identify issues within the dashboards and easily generate insightful reports. If something goes down, we can easily detect the issue.

Splunk's real-time processing capability has been pretty good for my use cases.

There is room for improvement in terms of scalability. They can enhance the ability to handle increasing volumes of data. 

I have been using it for four years now. 

There have been occasional issues, but nothing major.

I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.

I never had issues with scalability. My organization has 8,000 end users. 

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

The customer service and support are good. 

Positive

In general, the initial setup is fairly easy.

Not everyone can do it. Some knowledge and experience would likely be helpful to get the most out of the setup.

Typically, the deployment would take around 16 to 20 hours.

The pricing is about average.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I would recommend using this solution. Overall, Splunk is a good tool for analysis and for representing data in a short span of time. It helps minimize unnecessary noise in the data.  

I use the Enterprise platform mainly to monitor infrastructure, applications, and some security logs.

The most valuable feature of Splunk for data analysis is its ability to search using SPL and SQL. With SPL commands, you can analyze both structured and unstructured data and build visualizations, dashboards, and reports. Additionally, Splunk offers alerting mechanisms for proactive monitoring.

There is room for improvement in introducing more AI capabilities onto Splunk Enterprise Platform. While they might exist in other platforms like ITSI, enhancing the Enterprise Platform with AI features would benefit many users who predominantly use it.

I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for almost three years.

I would rate the stability of Splunk at around a seven out of ten. While it is generally good, in complex environments, issues may arise due to the increased number of components and dependencies. However, overall, the stability is good.

I would rate Splunk's scalability as a nine out of ten. It is the best log analysis application currently available. Scalability has allowed us to handle increasing volumes of data, enabling us to onboard additional customers and share infrastructure monitoring on the same setup. We have approximately 20 people using Splunk Enterprise Platform in our company.

The technical support team could improve by providing more direct assistance rather than primarily relying on community resources for issue resolution. While they do understand the issues, they often refer to existing communities for solutions instead of directly addressing system-specific concerns. Overall, I would rate the support as a six out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup of Splunk Enterprise is relatively complex compared to other monitoring applications in the market. There is a need to focus on simplifying key components and reducing dependencies for a smoother setup process. For a large environment, the deployment of Splunk Enterprise typically takes around three months to set up completely.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is a bit expensive.

I use the Platform to monitor my IT infrastructure. There are apps for Linux and Windows servers that capture performance metrics like CPU and memory usage. These metrics are collected and sent to the blank index through forwarders.

Splunk helps with security information and event management by detecting and monitoring network equipment and firewalls. It saves searches for specific terms, like threats, in firewall logs. When a match is found, it alerts about potential security breaches, helping to detect and address them.

The real-time processing capability in Splunk enhances data monitoring by centrally collecting all data. This allows for easy searching and scheduling of searches, reducing the need for manual intervention.

The dashboard and visualization features in Splunk impact data analysis by providing a clear status of data analysis. Users can create customized views for management, helping them understand what is happening within the infrastructure more effectively.

I would recommend Splunk to others, especially from the CIM perspective. Its data analysis and visualization capabilities are unmatched, making it an excellent choice for SIM.

Overall, I would rate Splunk Enterprise Platform as a nine out of ten.

We use the Splunk Enterprise Platform for logging and monitoring purposes. If users log into different databases and do something, we onboard database logs and other AWS logs to Splunk. Then, we create a dashboard alert report, and based on those dashboard alerts, we monitor users' actions. If they perform suspicious activities, we also send alerts. We use the solution to create dashboard alerts, reports, and some query language.

The most valuable features of the solution are the load balancing technique, the forwarding technique, and SSL certification.

Sometimes, queries don't give proper results, and the indexes go down.

I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for seven years.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for stability.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

The solution’s technical support is good.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

I have heard from my managers that Splunk Enterprise Platform is an expensive solution.

The solution has helped us with our security information and event management. If someone performs deletion operations, we get an automated alert informing us that a privileged activity has been performed. We forward the logs in real-time. We are ingesting 10GB of data into the solution daily. We have some input filters in the solution's dashboard.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We used the product for cloud-based monitoring or systems monitoring. 

The key difference I noticed for my use case, which involved understanding user behaviors and responses to digital elements, was that I could obtain more detailed reporting than what was possible with Amplitude. I could download a file with very specific information, which was helpful.

I did not use it for real-time monitoring. My focus was on investigating incident reports to understand the extent of user impact. Primarily, I utilized the Splunk Enterprise Platform to analyze user behavior.

I found the incident notification to be very helpful. While Splunk Enterprise Platform provided detailed data, it didn't seem to check as many boxes for user behavior as Amplitude did. At the same time, I'm not sure if Amplitude offers features for monitoring or incident coverage.

Its ability to access granular details in Excel was beneficial. It's always helpful to transition from visualizations to detailed user reports. 

The tool lacked in providing a shareable format. I had to use pivot tables and manually parse and edit the data to create a visualization-friendly format. It was helpful when we had an issue. What would make it stronger is if it were more proactive. For example, if it highlighted major incidents and their impact on users without digging through notifications, that would be better. Typically, the first question we get is, "Oh, we had an incident. How bad was it? How many customers were impacted?" So having that information pop up from the notification would be helpful.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is stable. 

I saw no issues or reasons to think that the product wouldn't scale over time. Our data is growing. 

I haven't contacted the tool's support. 

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

I would recommend it for incident management reporting. I would not advise it for understanding user behavior or usage. If I had to choose between Splunk Enterprise Platform and Amplitude, I would probably go with Amplitude, but I also have no familiarity with what their incident reporting is like.

We monitor our airtight network traffic using the Splunk Enterprise Platform. We also use the solution for port monitoring, to monitor which ports are closed, which are open, and flapping if in any port. We use it to check our server performance to see if it gets choked because of high CPU or RAM utilization.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure solution.

There should be continuous customer engagement and training programs on the new features and capabilities introduced by the solution.

I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for four years.

I rate Splunk Enterprise Platform a nine out of ten for stability.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is a scalable solution. Two people are using the solution in our organization to monitor data.

I rate Splunk Enterprise Platform ten out of ten for scalability.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

One or two hours is enough to deploy the solution, but its configuration will take time, based on the users. Just one person is enough to deploy the solution.

We have seen a return on investment with Splunk Enterprise Platform for security and performance use cases.

The solution’s pricing is moderate. We have to pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution, and there is an additional cost for support.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is a good and easy-to-use solution. It has to be regularly upgraded to the changing network or customer needs.

Overall, I rate Splunk Enterprise Platform an eight out of ten.

We use the monitoring solution. People might ask me to create a new request, maybe for a specific Windows event log, which is how we create a ticket for an incident. Most of the time, this creates a new alert for people. It can be a little complex. We can also create dashboards with some information for other teams. Dashboard alerting is a big part of the work.

Though we use Splunk for monitoring, for me, it is more software that collects lots of data and can then be used for alerting.

We use a custom environment.

The best thing about Splunk is you can collect all the data you want, and you can play with the data and do what you want. You can modify the data and collect all the information into one dashboard. It's very cool. In other monitoring software like Zabbix, you can't easily do something like this. With Splunk, it's very easy. You need to understand Splunk's language, but you can do what you want after that. You can correlate your data with CSV files. Splunk can monitor, extract, transform, and load software.

Splunk is not an out-of-the-box solution like Micro Focus or Zabbix. You have to create your request to collect the data and add crucial components to the software. You have add-ons created by Splunk or the community but don't have out-of-the-box monitoring items in the software. For example, FETCH CUP with Micro Focus is agentless monitoring, has a lot of out-of-box items, and is easy to use. You will find it difficult to use Splunk initially, which could use improvement. However, I know there is another module from Splunk that focuses on fast and secure monitoring with more out-of-box add-ons, but I haven't used it since when I started using it, it lacked out-of-box items. All the same, Splunk could be more user-friendly for new users.

I've worked with the solution for about two years.

I rate Splunk's stability a nine out of ten because it's very stable. I don't face issues with projects.

You can scale Splunk. It works with an indexer which indexes search data. If you want more power, you can add more indexers, so I rank Splunk's scalability an eight out of ten.

With all the documentation available, the initial setup is not difficult. If all you want is a stand-alone app in Splunk to handle all the processes, you just need to create a project in the data server, which is easy.

You must buy a license with the on-prem version, usually through an intermediary. In France, it's Accenture. There are cloud solutions where Splunk handles the servers and patching directly, and you just use the solution.

The solution is expensive, so I rate its pricing a four out of ten. Though the solution is expensive, it depends on which company purchases the product.

Though I haven't used it, Grafana is also a CM that can collect data.

I didn't create the custom environment we use at my organization. Still, it doesn't seem too difficult to build things because there is a lot of online documentation and videos. You can also get training with Splunk. You have a lot of data to help you when you want to create a new environment.

I rate Splunk Enterprise Platform an eight out of ten. The solution is very powerful, and I like to play with data to do what I want.

I use the solution in my company to capture the events to deal with threat detection, incident response, and compliance reporting. For IT and OT operation management, it gets complex to track the health and performance of IT OT convergence infrastructure, including our network devices and applications, so Splunk Enterprise Platform can be used for centralized log management for both IT and OT

We reduce false positives alerts and also saved time in resolving issues by leveraging there AI intelligence.

The most valuable feature of the tool for DevOps and from a continuous delivery perspective is that the tool is useful in areas like deployment, monitoring, and incident management.

If I compare Splunk Enterprise Platform with the other tools, the dashboard and the user interface need to be built at a console level and in a user-friendly mode. Sometimes, the tool looks a bit complex, and we can't find out the exact area where we need to make the changes in the configuration and changes for the log events monitoring. The dashboard and the console-level areas need to be made friendly.

The product's initial setup phase needs to be made easy since it looks like it is very complex compared to the other tools in the market.

I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for three years.

From a stability perspective, the tool is good. If any breakdowns exist, remediation and support are provided, so it is not a problem.

The tool is used by around 5,000 employees and servers in my company.

I have interacted with the solution's technical support. I rate the technical support a seven and a half out of ten.

The solution is deployed in an on-premises version.

The tool is expensive.

To first-time users, I can say that proper analysis and bandwidth utilization, cloud resource monitoring, and cost optimization are the things I would ask one to check in the tool.

It is not easy for beginners to use, and for freshers, it will take time to understand the tool.

From a security perspective, I rate the tool a nine out of ten. From a user and the console perspective, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

In general, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

Splunk Enterprise Platform is useful as a tool for its SIEM and SOAR functionalities.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it provides local support to users in Indonesia. The features that Splunk Enterprise Platform provides to users are the same as the ones provided by ArcSight, so I cannot compare both products.

The solution has certain shortcomings when it comes to APIs, making it in an area where improvements are required.

Integration is an area that can be considered as one of the challenges we face with the solution in our company. From an improvement perspective, the solution should make the integration of the product with other tools in the market possible.

I have been using Splunk Enterprise Platform for almost three years.

It is a stable solution. The product stays stable from the development stage to the production environment. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

It is a scalable solution.

Around 1,400 employees in our company use the solution.

My company does plan to increase the use of the solution.

The SLA is consistently maintained.

I have experience with ArcSight.

The product's initial setup phase was very complex.

During the product's first time deployment, the product is dispatched to the user for assessment, after which a user can deploy it and take care of the areas from implementation to production.

The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud.

The solution can be deployed in three to five months.

Around seven people are required to manage the deployment and maintenance of the product.

The deployment can be carried out with the help of our company's in-house team.

There are yearly payments to be made towards the licensing costs attached to the solution.

I can recommend the product after considering the needs and budget of the customers, as well as the company's size.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.