Senior Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-07-27T12:32:00Z
Jul 27, 2023
I rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a nine out of ten. Splunk is a responsive piece of software. It's user-friendly and easy to get the data you need. I advise people to take the time to learn how to create reports and analytics.
Why shift to something you don't know when you are, perhaps, happy enough with the tool that you already have? Think about whether you could develop that tool into something that would give you the visibility you would like to have, instead of using Splunk. Are you looking into incidents, traffic flows, indexing per day, or is the issue that you're looking for an alternative with a better price? Think about why you are considering shifting from a tool that you already know.
I would tell those planning to use the solution that they probably need to consider setting it up in a lab before deploying it. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
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Our model of deployment is the cloud. I would rate this solution as a whole a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. I would advise other people looking into this solution to do their due diligence and make sure they do their pre-work and post-work.
Solution Architect(Splunk- Log Management) at Tata Consultancy
Real User
Top 10
2023-03-01T12:15:03Z
Mar 1, 2023
I give the solution an eight out of ten. I suggest using Splunk Professional Services for enrollment review. Splunk has a set of recommendations for keeping our data clean and structured when logging into Splunk, which will make our application infrastructure monitoring more effective. Splunk also has best practices that need to be implemented. We can take care of this in one call, and Splunk inputs may help us make it even better.
Network & Systems Administrator Individual Contributor at T-Systems
Real User
2022-04-12T16:17:40Z
Apr 12, 2022
We partner with Splunk. We use the product to deliver it to our customers. We're an integrator. We're just using the product to service our customers. I'd advise new users that it is a very good product, however, you need to have some knowledge and do some training on the product in order to gather knowledge so that you can understand and implement it effectively. I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2020-03-29T08:26:00Z
Mar 29, 2020
As a newbie, I wouldn't prefer Splunk. The reason being that it's a completely enterprise-grade solution. As a startup, you don't implement Splunk for the first time. We'd put an open-source product. With us, we have many of the Italian products, which proves to be a good open-source solution. In the end, people intend to go for enterprise support for the vulnerability patching, report generation, and enterprise support. People go for licensing based on that. I wouldn't refer any newbies to go for a weak enterprise-grade solution as they barge into any technology. I would rate Splunk a seven out of ten.
Cyber Security Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-03-09T08:07:55Z
Mar 9, 2020
I would definitely recommend the solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten. I don't believe we have a business relationship with Splunk, but we do have a large number of licenses with them.
Prinicipal Security Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-03-09T08:07:00Z
Mar 9, 2020
We're a Splunk partner and reseller. Typically, the solution is on-prem for the most part because it requires a very heavy lift in storage and the storage is very expensive. Most companies deploy it on-premise and then add on the cloud solution as well later on. I'd warn other organizations that want to use the solution that they need to be prepared to spend a lot of money. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten due to the fact that it's extremely complex to run and deploy.
Information Security Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-01-29T11:22:00Z
Jan 29, 2020
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate it at around an eight. We are using it for six years now and renewing the support and the license. So you can say that we are at least reasonably happy with the product and do not have to replace it. To make the product rate higher they would have to match some of the capabilities of other products within the same category that they lack. For example, if we want to get to a feature in QRadar, we can get to it in two clicks. But with Splunk, we need to do a lot more to navigate to the features. Sometimes when we need to accomplish a task, it may not be part of the basic system so we need to write more code and do more work to get the same result as we might if using another product. The other point, I think, has to do with the storage. Splunk does not have appliances and storage and we have to be the ones who are responsible for taking care of the matters of requisitioning the appropriate hardware. A lot of storage is needed just for logs that it generates. So I think this hardware problem and need for storage is another issue that we might face with Splunk if we use it as a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management).
This is a very good product, but my advice is that you have to be trained in order to use it, otherwise you will be lost. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5
2019-10-28T06:33:00Z
Oct 28, 2019
My experience with this solution in analyzing machine data is really good. The interface could be simplified and I would like to have more clustering. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.
I am not certified with Splunk, but I am a system administrator. I passed the fundamentals one and two. This is a very good solution. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
The advice that I would give to companies considering this type of solution is that choosing the right solution all depends on what you want to do. I'd say Splunk makes more sense if you only want to have one tool or service to monitor. A lot of our infrastructure is not complex. I just put Splunk there, I collect the logs and I calculate what I need. I do that step-by-step, so it is a bit difficult as an approach when things are more complex. You want to reduce complexity when monitoring just one single service. Our business is focused on monitoring. We don't want monitoring to care about software distribution and additional concerns. So, if it is just straight forward monitoring of a service that you need to do, then I think then you're right to use this product. There are other potential solutions. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Splunk as an eight.
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Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
I rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a nine out of ten. Splunk is a responsive piece of software. It's user-friendly and easy to get the data you need. I advise people to take the time to learn how to create reports and analytics.
Why shift to something you don't know when you are, perhaps, happy enough with the tool that you already have? Think about whether you could develop that tool into something that would give you the visibility you would like to have, instead of using Splunk. Are you looking into incidents, traffic flows, indexing per day, or is the issue that you're looking for an alternative with a better price? Think about why you are considering shifting from a tool that you already know.
I would rate Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring a seven out of ten. There's more we can do with it. We just haven't explored it.
We are using the latest version of the product. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I would tell those planning to use the solution that they probably need to consider setting it up in a lab before deploying it. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Our model of deployment is the cloud. I would rate this solution as a whole a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. I would advise other people looking into this solution to do their due diligence and make sure they do their pre-work and post-work.
I give the solution an eight out of ten. I suggest using Splunk Professional Services for enrollment review. Splunk has a set of recommendations for keeping our data clean and structured when logging into Splunk, which will make our application infrastructure monitoring more effective. Splunk also has best practices that need to be implemented. We can take care of this in one call, and Splunk inputs may help us make it even better.
We partner with Splunk. We use the product to deliver it to our customers. We're an integrator. We're just using the product to service our customers. I'd advise new users that it is a very good product, however, you need to have some knowledge and do some training on the product in order to gather knowledge so that you can understand and implement it effectively. I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten.
As a newbie, I wouldn't prefer Splunk. The reason being that it's a completely enterprise-grade solution. As a startup, you don't implement Splunk for the first time. We'd put an open-source product. With us, we have many of the Italian products, which proves to be a good open-source solution. In the end, people intend to go for enterprise support for the vulnerability patching, report generation, and enterprise support. People go for licensing based on that. I wouldn't refer any newbies to go for a weak enterprise-grade solution as they barge into any technology. I would rate Splunk a seven out of ten.
I would rate Splunk Insights for Infrastructure at a seven out of ten.
I would definitely recommend the solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten. I don't believe we have a business relationship with Splunk, but we do have a large number of licenses with them.
We're a Splunk partner and reseller. Typically, the solution is on-prem for the most part because it requires a very heavy lift in storage and the storage is very expensive. Most companies deploy it on-premise and then add on the cloud solution as well later on. I'd warn other organizations that want to use the solution that they need to be prepared to spend a lot of money. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten due to the fact that it's extremely complex to run and deploy.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate it at around an eight. We are using it for six years now and renewing the support and the license. So you can say that we are at least reasonably happy with the product and do not have to replace it. To make the product rate higher they would have to match some of the capabilities of other products within the same category that they lack. For example, if we want to get to a feature in QRadar, we can get to it in two clicks. But with Splunk, we need to do a lot more to navigate to the features. Sometimes when we need to accomplish a task, it may not be part of the basic system so we need to write more code and do more work to get the same result as we might if using another product. The other point, I think, has to do with the storage. Splunk does not have appliances and storage and we have to be the ones who are responsible for taking care of the matters of requisitioning the appropriate hardware. A lot of storage is needed just for logs that it generates. So I think this hardware problem and need for storage is another issue that we might face with Splunk if we use it as a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management).
This is a very good product, but my advice is that you have to be trained in order to use it, otherwise you will be lost. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
My experience with this solution in analyzing machine data is really good. The interface could be simplified and I would like to have more clustering. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.
We use the private cloud deployment model. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
I am not certified with Splunk, but I am a system administrator. I passed the fundamentals one and two. This is a very good solution. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
The advice that I would give to companies considering this type of solution is that choosing the right solution all depends on what you want to do. I'd say Splunk makes more sense if you only want to have one tool or service to monitor. A lot of our infrastructure is not complex. I just put Splunk there, I collect the logs and I calculate what I need. I do that step-by-step, so it is a bit difficult as an approach when things are more complex. You want to reduce complexity when monitoring just one single service. Our business is focused on monitoring. We don't want monitoring to care about software distribution and additional concerns. So, if it is just straight forward monitoring of a service that you need to do, then I think then you're right to use this product. There are other potential solutions. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Splunk as an eight.