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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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Best logging and Future SIEM tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 16, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use to be Splunk Enterprise customer but local storage for logs was challenging. Moving to cloud indirectly we have now unlimited storage and scale up easy when our require...
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Contributor
Splunk Cloud Platform2 years of experience

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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Verified user
Director
Splunk Cloud Platform4 years 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.

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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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Splunk Cloud provides quick and easy access to important metrics and logs!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 13, 2021
Verified User
Director in Customer Service
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Splunk Cloud is used to provide quick and easy access to important data. This includes metrics about their business, the use of our services, revenue, and errors. Several departments throughout the organization use the data and dashboards available in Splunk.
Pros
  • Excellent dashboards that provide a quick view of important data.
  • Easy to create dashboards.
  • Filtering within the dashboards provides updated dashboards quickly.
  • Exporting is easy.
Cons
  • While the dashboards are intuitive, setting them up isn't always as easy. A more intuitive interface would help ensure all users can easily set up dashboards to get the information they need.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to see the data instead of dig for it, Splunk is helpful for providing the visualizations that speak to the data.

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.

Heavy Hitter SIEM!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 22, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Splunk to centralize and consume all of our server logs, and various other logs, to monitor for interruptions in service, anomalous activity, and other security-related events. Splunk is primarily used by our DevOps and Security teams. Splunk solved an issue of being able to easily and effectively search hundreds of thousands of log entries in an easy to consume format.
Pros
  • Splunk is extremely versatile and can consume just about any kind of log out there.
  • Splunk's search function is very powerful, and allows for some very complex search criteria. Narrowing and/or expanding search results is as simple as a click of the mouse.
  • There are many different apps/plugins that can be added to Splunk that provide built-in reporting and alerting on certain kinds of events, meaning you don't have to be an expert to use Splunk.
Cons
  • There is a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to initially use it.
  • When SAML is set up, there is no apparent way to log out.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Best logging and Future SIEM tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 16, 2025
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use to be Splunk Enterprise customer but local storage for logs was challenging. Moving to cloud indirectly we have now unlimited storage and scale up easy when our requirements change.
Pros
  • Storage
Cons
  • Access over private links
Likelihood to Recommend
Where storage requirement is unpredictable at the same time number of Splunk query is predictable

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 04, 2024
Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Internet Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Splunk Cloud Platform
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 to focus on a single platform and remove duplication of costs, training, data onboarding etc. We have alerts that are sent directly to operations teams and dashboards available for wallboards and aggregate data.
Pros
  • Easy to get data in
  • Rich user experience
  • Wide range of Splunk & Community add-ons
Cons
  • Unable to download configuration changes easily
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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