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Splunk Cloud Platform

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What is Splunk Cloud Platform?

Splunk Cloud Platform is 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.

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One-size-fits-all indexed monitoring solution with stromg search capabilities

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 19, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Splunk Cloud Platform is our near-real-time monitoring machine for observation of more than 200 automated systems. It indicates faulted processes, inefficiencies in operations...
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Analyst
Splunk Cloud Platform2 years of experience

Security Excellence and IT Ops Insights at your fingertips in a single place

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 4, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Splunk Cloud to aggregate logs from various Cloud and on-premise applications and services into a single place for Security and IT Operations monitoring. This allows us...
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Consultant
Splunk Cloud Platform4 years of experience

Splunking Great.

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 8, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
With so many disparate systems finding a single fault point within all the interconnected applications is very difficult. Splunk enables us to centrally locate all logs and me...
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Michael Spence
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Network Engineer
Monash University
Splunk Cloud Platform8 years of experience

Splunk Cloud - king of log ingest

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 29, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Log aggregation, enterprise security - alerts and detections off of log events for corporate infrastructure. Correlation searches off of specific events, application troublesh...
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Director
Splunk Cloud Platform4 years of experience

Splunk Cloud - Excellent product with steep learning curve

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 23, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Splunk Cloud is used by the IT department for the majority of the devices that can produce logs. It was initially purchased as a syslog aggregate but has evolved into much mor...
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Fraser Clark
Administrator - Information Technology
Network Engineer
People's Postcode Lottery
Splunk Cloud Platform1 year of experience
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What is Splunk Cloud Platform?

Splunk Cloud Platform is 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.

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Product Demos

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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 Platform?

Splunk Cloud Platform is 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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Splunk Cloud Platform is 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.

IBM Security QRadar SIEM, LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform, and Trellix Enterprise Security Manager are common alternatives for Splunk Cloud Platform.

Reviewers rate Event and log normalization/management and Custom dashboards and workspaces highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Splunk Cloud Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Splunk Cloud, good for cloud-first companies.

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
July 19, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We recently implemented it in our organization, mainly for security monitoring and to provide visibility into our cloud infrastructure and various providers. We are bringing in data to better identify anomalies, events of interest, and indicators of compromise.
Pros
  • Integration with Okta for IAM-related security events and monitoring.
  • Integration with AWS for CloudTrail and CloudWatch logs
  • Integration with Mimecast for email monitoring and integration
Cons
  • Deploying apps require a support ticket and can have a long turnaround time.
  • Making changes to conf files requires a ticket and if it's not through an approved process, then Puppet will reset it to what it was previously
  • Custom apps have to be very well written to make it through the approval process.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a smaller team that can't have a dedicated Splunk admin to manage the indexers, clusters, search heads, etc, Splunk Cloud is good because you have them manage it.

Splunk Cloud - king of log ingest

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 29, 2023
Verified User
Director in Other
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Log aggregation, enterprise security - alerts and detections off of log events for corporate infrastructure. Correlation searches off of specific events, application troubleshooting, and any other details that you can find in our log sources.

Using Splunk Cloud simplifies the solution as we do not have to maintain and manage infrastructure.
Pros
  • Log ingest / parsing
  • role based access to specific logs
  • log event searching
  • alerts and dashboards
Cons
  • Filter of incoming logs from cloud sources - needs drastically improved UI
  • Mission Control - nice concept, not there in implementation
Likelihood to Recommend
Best platform for ingesting, parsing, and searching for logs. Other recent promises of new functionality that is not ready yet.

Splunk Cloud - Excellent product with steep learning curve

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 23, 2022
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Fraser Clark
Network Engineer
People's Postcode Lottery (Gambling & Casinos, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Splunk Cloud is used by the IT department for the majority of the devices that can produce logs. It was initially purchased as a syslog aggregate but has evolved into much more than that now. It addresses the question of log retention and security investigation. It will eventually be expanded to be used across the wider business.
Pros
  • Searching through logs/data
  • Data ingestion
Cons
  • Documentation for add-ons and apps
  • Support for Splunk Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Splunk Cloud is a great solution for SIEM

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 13, 2019
JS
Joseph Sweet
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Shearman & Sterling, LLP (Law Practice, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Splunk Cloud is being used by our IT security operation and our DevOps team. It is being used similarly to a SIEM for aggregating log data and running analysis on it for generating alerts. It replaced Sumo Logic which was producing too many poor alerts and was not as robust of a solution. It supports our SOC well, and it makes our security team's job much easier. We are also using it in DevOps as a pilot for APM.
Cons
  • We have no suggestions at this time. It has been a great experience.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Splunk Cloud -- A tool that helps monitor and solve problems.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 22, 2018
JK
Jeff Kitchens
Technical Project Analyst III
CCMSI (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Here at CCMSI, we use Splunk Cloud to monitor Active Directory Events. It is primarily used by the IT Systems Team. It has proven to be invaluable to find misconfiguration, excessive usage, improper procedures, and security events. The tool allows me to give Management the information they ask for in a graphical way that shows trends, spikes, and overall usage.
Pros
  • Splunk Cloud allows me to search the volumes of information help in Windows Server Logs quickly and accurately.
  • Splunk Cloud allows me to create Dashboards for everyday monitoring of multiple parameters.
  • Splunk Cloud allows me to create and schedule reports for Management on network usage and statistics.
Cons
  • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
  • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
  • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
Likelihood to Recommend
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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