Splunk Cloud Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.