#1 most frequent
United States of America
66.5%421 installations of 633
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Event and log normalization/management
Ability to normalize event syntax so that logs can be compared and are machine-understandable
Category average: 8.6
Centralized event and log data collection
Effectiveness of real-time centralized event and log data collection
Category average: 8.5
Custom dashboards and workspaces
dashboards that can be customized to meet the needs of specific groups
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Response orchestration and automation
Quality of built-in response orchestration and automation in Next-Gen SIEM
Category average: 7.6
Deployment flexibility
Ability to tune system to maximize threat detection and minimize false positives
Category average: 7.4
Behavioral analytics and baselining
How effectively activity and behavior baselines are established and maintained
Category average: 7.6
Who Buys & Uses Splunk Cloud Platform
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6.8%43 installations of 633
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.1%26 installations of 633
Pros
- Real-time data observation and alerting
- Effective cybersecurity threat detection (SIEM capabilities)
- Significant time savings in operational tasks and investigations
Cons
- Outdated and tedious user interface
- System performance issues, including slow logon and general slowness
- Limitations in debugging tools
Splunk Cloud Platform - a nice SIEM
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used it for logging all data and then feed all that data into some security models and used it as a SIEM.
Pros
- Incredibly powerful and customizable.
- Easy to ingest logs.
- Built in dashboards are good.
Cons
- Tedious to use at first.
- Slightly outdated UI.
- Sometimes slow.
Return on Investment
- Hard to use, training takes a while.
- Pricey for what you get.
- Saves a lot of time when doing investigations.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Sentinel and Darktrace
Other Software Used
Microsoft Sentinel, SentinelOne Singularity
Perfect fit for our needs in analyzing data
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Splunk Cloud Platform mainly for data quality management, especially for monitoring important interfaces and data insufficiencies.
Additionally, we use it to monitor automation performance of our Automation Suite, including 250 productice automations from various providers. Splunk Cloud Platform is great at identifying patterns where automations are failing, summarizing that information and enhancing it with context and sending it out to another tool carrying out the orchestration for us. With Splunk Cloud Platform, we also make sure to minimize maintenance pings by summarizing likewise events in one protocol.
Additionally, we use it to monitor automation performance of our Automation Suite, including 250 productice automations from various providers. Splunk Cloud Platform is great at identifying patterns where automations are failing, summarizing that information and enhancing it with context and sending it out to another tool carrying out the orchestration for us. With Splunk Cloud Platform, we also make sure to minimize maintenance pings by summarizing likewise events in one protocol.
Pros
- Statistics
- Pre built functions
- Orchestration/Queue mgmt
Cons
- Debugging
- Third party integrations
- Logon speed
Return on Investment
- Increased time for value deriving tasks
- More efficient maintenance and debugging processes
- Overall increase in transparency on maintenance issues
- Improved data quality and consistency
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI
Other Software Used
UiPath Automation Platform, Microsoft Power Automate, Celonis
Splunk Cloud Platform assessment
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The current use case is using Splunk Cloud Platform to look for cyber security threats. While there are other tools being used to look for cybersecurity threats. Splunk Cloud Platform has proven to be a reliable and trusted source.
It's also used monitor login attempts and watch traffic patterns and trends. Dashboards have long been used in this product and will continue.
It's also used monitor login attempts and watch traffic patterns and trends. Dashboards have long been used in this product and will continue.
Pros
- Monitoring
- Dashboards
- Searching
Cons
- Cost
- Configuration
- Maintenance
Return on Investment
- Reduced MTTR by 25%
- Preventing breaches justifies investment
- High licensing costs
- Need for skilled senior personnel to operate
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Datadog, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel
Other Software Used
PagerDuty, Splunk SOAR, DataSet by SentinelOne, Zeek Network Security Monitor
Best logging and Future SIEM tool
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
Return on Investment
- Meets our dynamic / constant expanding needs
Usability
Alternatives Considered
FortiAnalyzer
Other Software Used
IBM Security QRadar SIEM
One-size-fits-all indexed monitoring solution with stromg search capabilities
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 and sends out webhook pings to our developers to fix these. Without Splunk Cloud Platform‘s search pricessing capabilities, we would never be able to cover all systems executions, screen logs for systematic errors and give direct advise on the fix.
Pros
- Search processing
- Indexing of fields (automatic and custom)
- Performance
Cons
- Debugging tools
- Implementation of AI components
- Third-party integrations
Return on Investment
- Saved a lot of time on maintenance / observation
- Professionalization of automation services
- Improved reliance and time to fix
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Celonis and Microsoft Power Automate
Other Software Used
UiPath Automation Platform, Bizagi Digital Business Platform, Celonis
