Splunk Enterprise Pricing

“This provides a great return on investment (ROI) and a rapid time-to-value return. … The cost associated with Splunk Enterprise Security is high, and many users express concerns about the licensing model and overall expenses.”

“Splunk training for learning the search language and manipulating your data can cost anywhere from $500.00 to $1500.00 (although a good number of free training exists).”

“They offer a free license that will handle up to 500MB/day, which unless you're logging against AD, or Exchange, is probably plenty to trial the software.”

“We could not justify the cost especially when there are alternate products that cost less and even free products that do most of what we want out of Splunk. … Tried splunk with free license and it was not enough to load all our data.”

“Enterprise license that fluctuates between license pools, having the ability to grab more space from unused pools. … Pricing for Splunk is high, but the benefits far out way the price impact.”

“cost and pricing structure - a frequent area of concern, especially for organizations with rapidly growing data volumes. … Negative impacts on business objectives (risk of low ROI) - high TCO - Ingestion-based pricing risk - this licensing model can be a major challenge.”

“The procurement process was easier because the low cost of the license was easier to justify.”

“It can be cost prohibitive, but I still think it's worth it.”

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The obvious wall is the cost of the product and for that reason I would say smaller businesses would not be suited to this as there are free solutions that could bridge this gap.”

“The functionality and cost savings alone have made upper management happy to deploy this system in our environment and the return on this investment has paid for itself.”

“Splunk offers many free technology add-ons that provides real value immediately. … Splunk also has a ton of free "bolt ons" that include pre-made dashboards to drive immediate value into your implementation.”