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What is Splunk Cloud?

A data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts, users can focus on acting on…

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  • Event and log normalization/management (15)
    9.7
    97%
  • Correlation (15)
    9.7
    97%
  • Centralized event and log data collection (15)
    9.0
    90%
  • Deployment flexibility (15)
    9.0
    90%

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What is Splunk Cloud?

A data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts, users can focus on acting on data. Search any kind of data in real-time to detect and prevent issues before they…

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Features

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Security Information and Event Management is a category of security software that allows security analysts to look at a more comprehensive view of security logs and events than would be possible by looking at the log files of individual, point security tools

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Product Details

What is Splunk Cloud?

A data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts, users can focus on acting on data. Search any kind of data in real-time to detect and prevent issues before they happen with access to streaming and machine learning capabilities. Search any kind of data in real-time to detect and prevent issues before they happen with access to the latest streaming and machine learning capabilities.

Splunk Cloud Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewers rate Correlation and Event and log normalization/management and Custom dashboards and workspaces highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Splunk Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Splunk Cloud is highly regarded for its efficient customer support and comprehensive services. Users appreciate its ability to perform security information and event management, providing real-time analysis. One of the standout features of Splunk Cloud is its user-friendly interface that allows users to create easily customizable dashboards and conveniently share them with others. The product has gained a reputation for being fast, reliable, and easy to navigate.

The versatility of Splunk Cloud makes it an invaluable tool across various departments within organizations. For the IT department, it helps monitor devices that generate logs, enabling them to address log retention and conduct security investigations. Moreover, Splunk Cloud is widely used throughout businesses to solve a range of problems, such as monitoring Active Directory Events, identifying misconfigurations, excessive usage, improper procedures, and security events. Additionally, teams including DevOps, Security, sales, support, and operations benefit from Splunk Cloud's capabilities as it centralizes server logs and provides insights into interruptions in service, anomalous activities, and security-related events.

Splunk Cloud eliminates the need to host infrastructure and pay upfront licensing costs by delivering Splunk-as-a-Service securely on the public cloud. It supports all Splunkbase apps, including premium applications with pre-packaged searches, dashboards, and reports. This makes it easier for businesses to log user events in mobile applications and backend services while gaining visibility into key metrics through comprehensive reports and dashboards.

A significant use case of Splunk Cloud lies in its role as a SIEM solution for aggregating log data and generating alerts when necessary. It replaces less robust solutions for enhanced security measures. Moreover, Splunk Cloud proves valuable in providing visibility into cloud infrastructure and various providers. It aids in identifying anomalies, events of interest, and indicators of compromise.

Overall, Splunk Cloud presents itself as an indispensable tool that offers a wide range of use cases across different departments within an organization. Its powerful features, efficient support, and user-friendly interface make it a popular choice for businesses seeking effective log management, security analysis, and real-time monitoring.

Effective SIEM Solution: Users have found Splunk Cloud to be a simple and effective solution for consolidating multiple data points and managing alert workflows. Several reviewers have mentioned that it has helped them streamline their security operations and improve incident response.

User-Friendly Interface: The user-friendly interface of Splunk Cloud has been praised by many users, with some describing it as intuitive and easy to navigate. This allows users to easily create custom dashboards for everyday monitoring of multiple parameters without the need for extensive training or technical expertise.

Powerful Search Capabilities: Many reviewers have highlighted Splunk Cloud's powerful query language and fast search indexing capabilities. This enables quick and accurate searching through large volumes of information, such as Windows Server Logs, making it easier for users to find the insights they need in a timely manner.

Cons:

  1. Lagging behind competitors: Some users have expressed that Splunk Cloud lags behind its competitors in terms of features and functionality. They feel that the enterprise versions are always one version behind the consumer versions, which hinders their ability to take advantage of the latest enhancements and improvements.
  2. Expensive cost: The cost of Splunk Cloud is considered expensive compared to its competitors. Users would like to see more cost-effective pricing options that align with their budget constraints and provide better value for money.
  3. Complex query language: The SPL programming language used for queries in Splunk Cloud is not intuitive, according to users. They find it challenging to write complex queries efficiently and would appreciate a better repository of pre-built queries for common usage monitoring, making it easier for them to analyze data without extensive knowledge of coding.

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January 08, 2024

Splunking Great.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk Cloud is suitable for a range of scenarios and is outstanding in Security monitoring use-cases. Having the data in Splunk Cloud easily opens up the possibility to implement IT Ops monitoring using the same data, however Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring might be a better IT Ops tool if the data is not already in Splunk Cloud.
Fraser Clark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk Cloud is suited for organisations that have a lot of data from many different data sources and you would like them to be in one tool. It's excellent for splitting data and searching through the different indexes of data.
If you only have one data source (syslog from network devices for example) I would say it is less appropriate and would be overkill.
David Hillier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I will highly recommend this software because using Splunk Cloud has helped us become more proactive about handling our security concerns and better manage our environment. It is one of the finest security software that is easy to use and also provides analytics. It has excellent features like creating dashboard security and managing features etc. So you must give it a try once!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk Cloud is good for application monitoring/alerting, data analysis and root cause analysis. For organizations that would like use Splunk but do not want to hire someone to operate or maintain it, this is the best solution.

From a cost perspective, it's not the cheapest one in the market.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Looking for the needle in the haystack is what Splunk excels at. When you have 300 servers all producing logs you need to look at it can be a very daunting task. Splunk allows you to add all of these logs into a central repository to search across all systems. It also helps you find how many times an error is happening and how widespread it is very quickly. I have yet to find an area where Splunk cannot help with searching and obtaining meaningful data from servers and network equipment.
Joseph Sweet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk Cloud has been great for our security environment and helping us becoming more proactive at addressing security concerns. For us, it has great transparency in terms of cost and allows for good scalability as we right-size our environment. It is great for developing easy to follow dashboards that you can share across your user environment.
August 16, 2019

Data is the new Oil!!

Manan Bhatt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Very well suited for many business use cases where security, performance, and support are the top-most priority, along with the normal use case of Splunk. One would get very good support if the company is using Splunk Cloud and can solve many business problems like seamlessly allowing end users to store, search, analyze and visualize data from different sources of one’s business or IT infrastructure. Splunk Cloud follows the state-of-the-art cloud ready deployment strategies in line with continuous integration/deployment pipeline which is designed for high availability, efficient change management, and robust architecture.

One shouldn't use Splunk Cloud for learning or testing purpose. Such things can be done or fulfilled by Splunk Enterprise as well and would be way cheaper then Splunk Cloud.
August 16, 2019

Powerful and versatile

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk is great for logging and aggregating information across many sources. We are able to attach unique ids to the requests from our mobile app and trace their execution through our backend services. It is also very powerful for creating dashboards and other insights based on our log data. I would even use it for just a single application, just for the search capabilities.
June 22, 2019

Heavy Hitter SIEM!

Chase Palmer, CISSP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Splunk is not cheap, so Splunk only makes sense for businesses where there are hundreds of thousands of logs a minute, or where manual processes or open source alternatives can't keep up. You will need to have a dedicated person or two in order to configure and manage Splunk on a very regular business, otherwise, you won't be able to reap the full benefits that Splunk can offer.
Jeff Kitchens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I find that Splunk Cloud is well suited for tracking user logins, Server Reboots, failed login attempts, account lockouts, and sorting these items by host or user. We often trace failed user logins to someone having cached credentials on an endpoint which can result in locked accounts that drive the Help Desk ticket volume up unnecessarily.
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