Splunk Enterprise Reviews

Powerful search language
Advanced visualisation
Flexibility to accept logs from any source
High availability
Ease of administration

The cost is too high compared to other log monitoring tools.

Makes it easy to identify trends within your environment. Once everything is aggregated it makes it easy for example, to see the knock on events of a network outage throughout the environment.

Web user interface is a bit clunky. Its very polished interface, but in many cases it's style over substance. When I'm debugging an issue I want to be able to drill down into the problem fast, and the shiny interface can be sluggish and slow you down.h

Intuitive, customizable and really usefull in everyday work. The different section "smart, quick and detailed" gives you the freedom to choice how to interact with the tool.

Some bugs on the Alerts section to edit makes the experience worse than I expect.

Easy to install agents on servers, it can parse any form of data easily, Splunk can detect anomalies quite easily and the UBEA feature is amazing.

The cost of this solution is high, and customer service is bad. Apart from that Splunk SPL language is difficult to learn.

Real time use. The ingestion of data and more.

Nothing yet.. maybe performance at times.

Splunk is easy to use, also non technical persons can also use and create their dashboards. Easy to implement and very easy to use the query language, the documentation is also sufficient

We cannot setup the alerts for realtime. we only us it for logging and not for metrics. the maintenance of the dashboards are very time offering.

Best tracking and data analysis tool which help to monitor and manage the server and system component in very effective way. Real time Visualization helps to take the quick decision so that desired action can be taken to avoid failure.Best data collection in the forms of log and which helps to define the best set of automation jobs to fix the issue.

There are few components or observation like,1. most of the time observes the slowness in the performance.2. Sometime observe the delay in the issue or updated log reflection on the portal. 3. Need more storage to manage and maintain the lo g which impact organizational costing and budget.

The ability to parse data and locate critical information is unparalleled

Search tools could be a little more user friendly.

The saying "you only get out what you put in" is rather apt when utilising Splunk as a SIEM tool - i.e. the more logs / data you can feed into the solution the better the results. Ingesting multiple log files from numerous systems / applications is essential when reviewing security incidents and ensures everything is in one place.

For all that is good with Splunk, the costs are rather high and could force Customers to other solutions unless they make themselves more competitive in the pricing market

The system is highly intuitive to use. It is faster than other solutions I've used on the market and has a huge library of 3rd party plugins to get more from the system. It is easy to create scheduled searches, dashboards, reports etc. but there are a number of additional plugins (at an extra cost) to help with security, single pane of glass and metric collection.

It offers challenges for a decentralized working model. Where Splunk is centrally managed, it is easy to ensure that best practices are maintained. Where the system is opened up for an entire department to utilize and on-board their logs, it becomes more difficult. However, with some creative thinking and good process, this issue can be overcome.

Several of our applications are distributed across multiple systems. It is the same software running on each server but doing the same job for different users. Each server would generate its own log files. When things went wrong, we used Splunk to be able to see what was going on on each server. Click a few buttons and you get two logs from two different servers listed together coordinated by time. But that leads you to discover that the issue came from a separate upstream or downstream server, then bring in those logs too . . . all coordinated by time. Don't get me wrong, the IT guys love these tools for their own enterprise reasons, but as a server stack developer, this was a resource I used OFTEN.

I never fully grokked their SQL like language. I could do basic things daily without issue. However, I often had to hit the documentation to do anything more than a simple "find this" query.

It is an easy to use solution, the implementation is a bit more difficult.

So far, this is a good solution that I use every day.

Splunk is more than a tool or a product, it is a big data platform. Splunk can be used as a simple log aggregator all the way to a Big Data engine to find efficiency in operations of the Internet of Things. Splunk is less about its abilities, and more about your imagination about what you can do with Splunk. That is the beauty of the platform. Splunk shines in providing operational intelligence about systems and processes. Finding out how your systems are operating, how your processes are functioning leads to quick resolution of problems and points to where budgets are best spent.

Splunk is deceptively easy to set up and use. But like learning to play chess, you can learn the moves in half an hour, but take a lifetime to master. Splunk quickly provides value, but requires imagination and creativity as well as wide ranging knowledge of systems and processes to move to the next level. Not every organization needs that kind of talent to get a great return from Splunk, but the companies who compete and win will.

Fast consolidation of disparate logs in an easy to search way for troubleshooting. I can find problems within my organization very quickly. Sales team was very responsive in getting me a trial license to estimate my needs.

Set up takes some time and planning. The Licensing scheme can be pretty expensive and until you've got it up and running it can be hard to estimate how much license you need.

We have been using splunk for over 5 years now. nothing beats splunk in the market place. The only concern we have the pricing and the resource to support it. it's just too expensive

Too expensive and it's too hard to manage. You have to find a very qualified and very expensive resource to support it.

Splunk Enterprise is a great tool for security analytics, IT operations, and business intelligence. I especially like the way it can help me identify potential threats and improve our IT infrastructure.

The pricing for Splunk Enterprise may be out of reach for some small businesses.

Powerful and versatile data mining tool with excellent integration capabilities.

Challenging initial setup and learning curve, particularly with query language and high cost.

It helped me enormously in my job as IT INC Management including detailed reports and alerting any necessary information.

It has a somewhat complex paring curve and there are no simple tutorials or parallel design of tutorials for new managers

I am able to quickly act on pending issues as and when they arise and data is well protected because of their authorization features

We had to purchase additional computers with higher specs than what we previously had to be able to use Splunk effectively