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What is Splunk Enterprise?
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
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Splunk Enterprise enables users to find out what is happening in a business and take meaningful action. It automates the collection, indexing and alerting of machine data that's critical to operations, so that users can uncover the actionable insights from data — no matter the source or format. Leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning for predictive and proactive business decisions.
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Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
SolarWinds Loggly and LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform are common alternatives for Splunk Enterprise.
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Valuable Log Gathering and Summarization: Users have expressed positive opinions about Splunk's ability to gather and summarize log messages from multiple sources. Many reviewers find this feature valuable, as it allows them to easily access and analyze log data in a centralized location without the need for manual aggregation.
Simplicity and Advanced Search Capabilities: Splunk's reporting functionality is highly regarded by users for its simplicity and advanced search capabilities. Several reviewers appreciate how easy it is to use Splunk's reporting features, while also being able to perform complex searches that provide detailed insights into their data.
Effective Web Traffic Catching and Dashboards: The effectiveness of Splunk in catching web traffic and providing helpful dashboards is another aspect praised by users. Many reviewers highlight how Splunk's web monitoring capabilities enable them to track website activity effectively, while the intuitive dashboards allow for quick visualization and analysis of important metrics.
Confusing User Interface: Some users have reported that the user interface in Splunk can be perplexing, leading to difficulties in quickly performing tasks and navigating the software.
Limited Integration with Excel: Users have expressed their desire for improved integration between Splunk and Excel when it comes to creating reports and dashboards. They feel that better connectivity and seamless data transfer would enhance their workflow.
Steep Learning Curve: Several users have mentioned the complexity of Splunk's architecture, requiring a dedicated team of engineers to effectively manage and optimize its performance. This steep learning curve can pose challenges for new users who may need additional time and resources to fully grasp the intricacies of the platform.
Based on user reviews, the following recommendations emerged for using Splunk:
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Ensure the correct subscription: Users emphasized the importance of having the correct subscription for Splunk to avoid login issues and fully utilize its features. They recommend careful planning of the deployment and learning as much as possible before implementing a large installation.
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Thoroughly investigate anomalies: While Splunk's great dashboards for troubleshooting are praised, users advise against relying solely on system alerts generated by Splunk. They suggest continuing to investigate any anomalies and carefully setting up sources and background data in Splunk.
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Utilize Splunk's log analysis capabilities: Many users recommend Splunk as a valuable tool for log analysis and improving the quality of current processes. They find it helpful for debugging integration issues and consider it suitable for large-scale applications/systems. Users appreciate its ability to connect to individual boxes and view multiple logs simultaneously.
It should be noted that some users suggest that there may be better and cheaper alternatives for small to medium-sized businesses, while others propose improvements to the search result UI and pricing structure to attract more users in the industry.
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February 28, 2019
Excellent tool for analyzing logs
Splunk Enterprise is used to monitor both Prod as well as all our lower environments. It is used for analyzing logs and tracing transactions. We write Splunk queries and create dashboards for monitoring several Key Performance Indicators. We first analyze metrics over a particular period of them to understand the trend and then set up alerts on these metrics for threshold violations.
- Simplifies analyzing of big logs finds and helps in finding issues faster.
- Splunk Alerts are great to be notified of possible issues so that necessary actions can be taken to avoid it from becoming a problem to our end users.
- Dashboard reports can be scheduled to be generated and share with key stakeholders.
- Comparison of two or more time series data in a single graph.
- Search and make suggestions on Splunk commands as we type on the search window.
January 02, 2019
a very good log handling and analysis tool
Splunk is not used across my organization. It is being used by some of us and for some specific task. And yes, it is also used by other departments as well but according to their need. Specifically, we are using this tool for monitoring the application logs and doing some analysis over it. Splunk provides a very easy way to search your logs and perform some basic analysis.
- Log search is very good with this tool.
- Splunk search query language is just very good. You can easily run some analysis using this language
- Generating reports is a very good feature of this tool.
- Detecting anomalies and reporting them is just fantastic.
- Splunk requires some learning to use all of its features. Understanding its SPL is not very easy, and it will take long enough time to learn it.
- Regular expression is a bit tedious to learn and then use, it needs a good understanding of regular expression.
- I don't know why, but sometimes its search keeps on going forever and then I had to manually kill that job to start it again.
January 02, 2019
Splunk is great for troubleshooting
We use Splunk to catalog all incoming quote requests, booking requests and booking responses (effectively we catalog all successful transactions and errors). My team uses these logs to troubleshoot connections with our partners. We also use this to analyze the behavior of our customers to make sure they are operating as we expect them to. I use this tool every day, for several hours per day, to do my job.
- logging server data
- easy to use commands to parse data
- automated reporting
- real-time reporting that will alert when a condition is met
- Not a Splunk problem, but we don't have enough space to store as much data as we would like
Currently we use it for compliance purposes. As per the policy we are required to maintain a record of authentication, authorization, and other security and audit logs surrounding the scope of the compliance. We are currently using Splunk Light to meet these compliance needs. Our auditor has been very pleased with the results of the reports we were able to generate using Splunk Light. We also use it to proactively fix issues that arise like locked AD, RSA, and other accounts that are being monitored.
- Indexing Logs
- Powerful Searching features
- Alerting us of very detailed alerts
- Custom indexing options
- Splunk Light does not scale very well
- Need to purchase Splunk Enterprise if you ever wish to use 3rd-party applications
- Very Basic. I wish Splunk Light came with a bit more capabilities out of the box
December 14, 2018
Monitor your monitors...
Splunk is used for application logs monitoring and system health checks for production environment and performance environment.
- Best tool to do log monitoring and creating intuitive dashboards and charts
- Best for setting up alerting for application logs
- The tool needs to integrate AI to understand the system logs and alerting should be based on the auto learning.
December 14, 2018
Splunk for log collection, indexing, analysis & dashboarding
Splunk is used in our enterprise to analyze monitoring and analytics data. We have thousands of micro services and APIs in our organization. All these APIs emit log data that is used to aggregate and analyze using Splunk. It also helps in end-to-end tracking of flows and data across services, in troubleshooting errors, and in generating metrics. Splunk is also used generating and configuring alerts.
- Used for indexing and collecting machine data and log data from APIs.
- This data is used to generate graphs, alerts, metrics that is useful to business, technology and operations.
- It is data source agnostic and is used to log API, batch, db and log data. It runs on AWS for us.
- The only con might be that it is much costlier than an open source system like ELK (Elastic Logstash Kibana).
December 12, 2018
We've tried the rest and now we're back on Splunk!
Splunk is our dumping ground for our logs. We use Splunk to pump the monitoring and statistical logs to, whether for analysis, storage, or for debugging purposes. The main problem it solves is that we have many systems that live in different places, and having one centralized repository for our logging helps us with correlation of bugs to specific times, and monitoring how different infrastructure interacts.
- Handles inputs from many different sources.
- Very easy queries.
- Dashboard support.
- Scaling story.
- Query speed.
Splunk Enterprise is used by the organization to primarily analyze data. It looks at data generated by various on-premise systems and provides meaningful insights out of them. Many advanced features like custom reporting are used by business analysts on a regular basis to determine the course of action. Last but not least, it is also used to execute daily support tasks like log analysis.
- Data Analytics
- Reporting
- Indexing search data
- Searching machine-generated data at realtime to forecast trends
- Splunk is expensive.
- To use Splunk effectively, people must learn SPL.
- Splunk is good at what it does, but to create an efficient analytics systems other products like SW monitoring tools need to be used in conjunction.
We use Splunk Enterprise across the entire company to collect log data that allows us to see up/down times of servers and applications. We have customized Splunk a good bit and it is one of the main tools we rely to monitor our server environment and troubleshoot issues when an app/server is down or having errors.
- Monitoring of log data to gauge server status and health
- Dashboards that allows us to view data about servers in our environment
- MOnitoring for fraud/cyber security threats and risks
- We really like the product but there is a steep learning curve and training is definitely required
- Our environment is setup so that you have to be fairly technical to navigate it and get value from it. We need to make our dashboards/reports less technical so the business users get more value from the tool
- Tool is very module driven so you are constantly having to add modules and costs to get new functinality
April 10, 2018
Splunk it!
We have used splunk light in the past for log analysis of Cisco routers, firewalls and switches to determine path issues. This was mainly used within the network infrastructure group. The alerting was the main benefit when trying to determine intruder detection and the path the intruder was trying to take.
- Though it was a little hard at first, creating the dashboards from the raw data became the big benefit.
- Setup of alerts was, again a little confusing but over time with the real time alert became useful.
- The building of dashboards for the security team for tracking intruders.
- The big one is writing the dashboards based off the raw data.
March 28, 2018
Splunk is a great tool for helping make sense of logs
I'm using Splunk to aggregate logs from various servers and devices within my department. While I don't interact with it daily, or even weekly a lot of times, I do use it heavily when faculty or staff come to me asking when users were logged in, when there are any questionable incidents on websites, etc.
- Log aggregation is extremely well done. Whether sending it logs over Syslog, mounting log directories over NFS, or using their log forwarding service.
- Searching. I'm an amateur at best when searching and aggregating logs. The reporting functionality is amazing.
- I would love some better wizards to help build canned reports based off common data sets.
- An easy way to back out integrating a log that suddenly balloons you over your license limits.
- An easier way to help Splunk parse log types. You can give Splunk any data you have, but unless you're able to tell it how the random log is formatted, your ability to search on it is limited.
March 21, 2018
Splunk Enterprise Review
Splunk is mainly used to log analysis and alerting of events, both business and technical events
- Business event alerting
- Technical Event alerting
- Graphing of information found in the data
- Users CAN write queries that are non-optimized causing both performance problems or unexpected (as in not what they wanted) results. It would be great if Splunk engineers could come up with some way to 'model' the queries and instruct users on query performance gave x number of records... and possibly an example of results - say using 100-1000 records - so that the user can see what they're going to get.
March 02, 2018
Proactive log monitoring with Splunk Light
Splunk Light is used by the engineering team. The main use case it targets - is proactive log monitoring. We wanted to integrate a system, which does log monitoring(application + system logs) and send us alerts if the system identifies errors or warning. Additionally, the solution needed to be HIPAA compliant. So instead of Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud, we ended up choosing Splunk Light, as we can manage the infra on our own.
- Real-time + Scheduled alerts - i-e you can set up alerts which are actively monitoring your logs
- Pretty good response time for search results. With our key/value logging, Splunk makes it blazing fast to query the data.
- Dashboards provide insights into historical data
- Love how Splunk indexes all of the data and provides keys to search on
- Splunk light limits number of users to 5. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add more users.
- Splunk light does not let you add > few realtime alerts. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add as many realtime alerts as wanted.
- Better insight into daily ingestion values
January 30, 2018
Splunk Review
Splunk is used across the whole organization and is used for logging. We log all of our web traffic thru Splunk and we use it to monitor what events are taking palce on our site. The business problem we solve for is not having to build an inhouse logging tool.
- Catching web traffic
- Dashboards are helpful
- Search capability is great
- The dropped logs can be frustrating
- our instance only retains data for 3 months
December 01, 2017
My Dive into using Splunk
Splunk is being used across our whole organization. We try to have all/most of our logs get pulled into splunk to be able to use the splunk UI to search across information. We are able to give employees access to splunk and allow them to diagnose issues without giving them explicit access to production servers or other production locations.
- Allow for separation of control where we don't let some employees have access to production but still can diagnose issues.
- Common location to go for all logs even if the logs themselves aren't in the same place.
- Ability to ingest logs from different locations without having to change the code to put logs in a certain place (pro and con).
- At times some queries can run slowly if indices are not on a portion of the query you use.
- Setup time initially can be difficult if your logs aren't stored in common locations or in a common way to write the log.
- Ability to ingest logs from different locations without having to change code to put logs in a certain place (pro and con).
- Searches can be a bit more difficult to look through if your log isn't pulled in a manner that is easy to read through splunk.
November 13, 2017
Splunk will make your job easier!!
We currently have evaluated and are deploying Splunk Enterprise to replace our older SIEM device. This will allow us to monitor our critical systems and allow for scalability as we continue to grow. Using this product has saved us time and money as it is used across our whole company's three locations. The flexibility and tools offered with Splunk make our jobs easier. Also, there are great forums and a cool wiki for best practices using Splunk.
- Monitoring is made easy and putting out reports for upper management is a breeze.
- With Splunk analytics we are better able to track our employees usage of systems for auditing purposes.
- Checking on performance through Splunk's monitoring makes our management of resources a lot easier and resources are put where needed most.
- Some of the start up in Splunk requires more than we would otherwise like.
- We wish there was more customizable reporting.
- Splunk sales engineers could be a bit more friendly and easier to work with.
September 14, 2017
Splunk for new users
Splunk is being used extensively in our technology department. Many applications use Splunk to monitor business activity, system resources, exceptions/failures, and to overall system status. Splunk addresses more technology-related problems but it does provide the business greater transparency into the applications which in turn gives both the business and the developer's peace of mind.
- SPLUNK has a quick learning curve and can be easily self-taught. For example, there are plenty of resources available such as tutorials and search tools. There is really no prerequisite for learning how to use Splunk.
- SPLUNK Enterprise provides plenty of useful documentation and user support which makes it easy for anyone to learn and start using SPLUNK in a very short period of time. There are also examples and user feedback that is helpful if you need more advanced implementations.
- SPLUNK is very powerful, yet simple. For instance, you can set up a dashboard in one day provided you have admin rights and access to the data you want to Splunk.
- Even though there is a search tool as a help function, you still have to read through many documentation to find the answers you're looking for and sometimes you don't find it. The help function in Splunk could be improved to be more intuitive or have a built-in help per report, panel or dashboard.
- Creating a Splunk dashboard is rather straightforward however, customization is not. Splunk could be improved to provide more tools or features for customization such as adding colors and font options for text and graphs or graphics.
- My dashboard has a lot of useful information and I want the important panels and reports at the top but there is no easy way to do this. Perhaps Splunk could be improved to allow features such as adding URL links to other dashboards or some other clever way to emphasize the important data in my dashboard without compromising space.
August 31, 2017
Splunk in a production environment is a must-have today
Production line quality monitoring and searching for patterns, leading to outages. Usually scan and fix tasks, finding an event, that leads to an outage.
Two main ways of using Splunk prevail: ad-hoc analysis, and monitoring and alerting.
In some applications with two production lines, Splunk connected directly to the controllers and monitored data in real time. In other applications, we analyzed logs from 5 systems, among others application server logs, database server logs, production line measuring PCs. In total 5 systems had to communicate and an error on DB server sometimes caused outages on the production line. Splunk helped to find patterns in these incidents. We then set up a monitoring app to provide early indication of a potential upcoming outage.
Two main ways of using Splunk prevail: ad-hoc analysis, and monitoring and alerting.
In some applications with two production lines, Splunk connected directly to the controllers and monitored data in real time. In other applications, we analyzed logs from 5 systems, among others application server logs, database server logs, production line measuring PCs. In total 5 systems had to communicate and an error on DB server sometimes caused outages on the production line. Splunk helped to find patterns in these incidents. We then set up a monitoring app to provide early indication of a potential upcoming outage.
- Parsing huge amounts of data, structuring data, or at least helping to find a structure
- Very good performance.
- Very good graphical representation of data, findings, report creation
- I really cannot, since after a year we are still discovering more and more possibilities with the product. One specific wish of a manager was: can we work with the reports offline? (e.g. on the airplane) we have not found a reasonable way of doing this. The only thing we came up with was exporting data and rendering specific reports in flash (web viewer) and somehow simulating reports within limited (predefined) boundaries
Splunk is being used to capture logs from all Windows, Linux, and firewall devices in our enterprise. Currently it is being used by the IT infrastructure department only, but our hope is to make it available to other departments to follow trends in our business. Splunk addresses the issue of visibility into the network. It actually gives IT professionals access to view what is taking place on the network, and it provides something to look at in order to address issues occurring behind the scenes.
- It gathers logs very well from almost all machine types - most SIEM related products don't do this quite as well.
- It provides visuals to the user, giving you the ability to transform logs into visual charts (e.g. pie charts, graphs, tables, etc.).
- Splunk is very quick in reporting and alerting on anomalies. There is little delay.
- Splunk can be very expensive, and it is best to size out your environment first before procuring. Planning is key, and make sure to buy a license that is at least 2-3 times what you think you need.
- There is a learning curve to Splunk. It takes a bit to get up to speed with the application.
- Support is very good, but they will almost never tell you to ways to not use up your license. I had to figure that out myself, and ended up cutting out some useless logs that used over 50 % of my license.
September 16, 2016
Splunk Implementor review
We implement Splunk for various use cases, but are mostly focused on security. Many companies do not have the visibility into their IT infrastructure to see potential issues in time to detect and resolve them in a timely manner. Splunk provides that visibility to allow companies to react to problems fast, be proactive, and even automate first steps of SOC investigations.
- Collecting logs and event information from disparate sources.
- Make correlating log information easier.
- Search and report on large volumes of machine data.
- Enterprise level management.
- Certificate management.
December 17, 2015
Got Splunk?
Although still in the final implementation stage, Splunk has allowed us to troubleshoot our software suite more efficiently. Our monitoring and engineering team can now rely on the syslog and log correlation capabilities of the Splunk to pinpoint where the issue is.
- Log correlation
- Alerting
- Syslog
- Would like to see more integrated tools and supported vendors (such as F5, Checkpoint, Palo-Alto, etc.).
December 14, 2015
Splunk running strong
Splunk is currently being used on our JBOSS Fuse ESB/SOA environment within our department. We have three teams constantly using Splunk for development, QA testing and Operations Support. Splunk has dramatically reduced the QA testing/validation times and has also helped reduce the amount of time spent on operational support. Having instant access to production logs and metrics has greatly reduced time spent gathering and manually analyzing log information. Splunk has ultimately reduced the amount of software tools needed to analyze, gather and validate operational metrics of our entire stack of software. One stop shop.
- Operational out of the box. No need to spend days setting up and configuring an application to ingest and analyze data.
- Web UI is fluid and flows easily.
- Additional applications available for integration with Splunk, and most are free.
- Enterprise Solution that can be up and running in a couple of hours.
- Enterprise license that fluctuates between license pools, having the ability to grab more space from unused pools.
- Ability to stop forwarders from indexing data via web console.
- Archiving of old indexed data could be refined. Current process is bit hard to understand with the different buckets and max times.
December 14, 2015
If you must analyze a ton of data then Splunk is your solution.
Splunk is deployed across the entire enterprise to solve many different data analysis questions for multiple departments ranging from workstation performance issues to enterprise security. As such, Splunk is deployed upon physical and virtual Windows workstations and servers, as well as ingesting data from Linux-based servers and network-centric architecture.
- Parsing data without manual intervention is a true time saver. Not to say you can't tweak the parsing, but unlike my experiences with the ELK stack, Splunk's ingestion and parsing is so good you can focus on other priorities.
- Splunk offers many free technology add-ons that provides real value immediately. For example, the Distributed Management Console (DMC) helps pull all the Splunk Architecture management together in one set of dashboards. To me, this is a true differentiator compared to its competitors.
- Searching for data nuggets is fast. Even dense datasets returns results surprisingly fast.
- Splunk works well with external data sources too. DBConnect is a feature that allows Splunk to interact with an existing data warehouse. So there's no need to move legacy data into Splunk indices since you can just use a SQL-like (dbquery) command to pull the data in for analysis.
- Search head clustering is great for reducing configuration differences among standalone search heads. The biggest problem with search head clustering (at the moment) is administration of non-knowledge object functions, like user roles and capabilities. Tasks like these must be done using Linux text editors and forces a rolling restart of all the search heads in the cluster.
- Creating custom applications in a search head cluster has also taken a step backwards. One strength I didn't mention earlier, is the ability to segregate users from data sets they shouldn't see. One method to assist partitioning users is with custom applications (aka sandboxes). However, like user administration, creating the "sandbox" requires Linux skills as opposed to the previous GUI-driven method.
- Querying LDAP datasets is limited to users with admin capabilities. That's okay only if the entire user community in your shop are administrators. Thus a great source for analyzing active directory membership is hindered until Splunk gets this fixed.
December 11, 2015
Powerful tool with a big learning curve
We are using Splunk to collect relevant security logs and correlate across different data sources to look for abnormal traffic or activity. Other business units such as marketing and engineering are increasingly becoming interested in using Splunk as it offers on the fly access to their data with powerful visualization including charts.
- Easy log collection
- A large library of search commands
- Able to ingest many different log types
- Normalization of data is challenging
- Not all Apps/Add-ons are CIM compatible
- Big learning curve
December 09, 2015
From a student's heart
We used Splunk for one of our projects when we had to deal with big data in one of our academic projects.
- Easy to understand.
- Deals well with big data.
- Great integration.
- Can we have public API integration for Splunk?
- Splunk should be available on AWS marketplace so that people can use it on the fly.
- Can we have some business modesl like Splunk as a service?