Overview
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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Robust IT Operations and SIEM Management Solution
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Popular Features
- Custom dashboards and workspaces (54)8.585%
- Centralized event and log data collection (53)6.565%
- Event and log normalization/management (53)6.161%
- Correlation (52)6.060%
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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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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
- 6.5Centralized event and log data collection(53) Ratings
Effectiveness of real-time centralized event and log data collection
- 6Correlation(52) Ratings
Correlation of logs and events to pinpoint significant threats
- 6.1Event and log normalization/management(53) Ratings
Ability to normalize event syntax so that logs can be compared and are machine-understandable
- 7.5Deployment flexibility(49) Ratings
Ability to tune system to maximize threat detection and minimize false positives
- 7.5Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools(49) Ratings
Integration with access control tools like Active Directory and LDAP
- 8.5Custom dashboards and workspaces(54) Ratings
dashboards that can be customized to meet the needs of specific groups
- 7Host and network-based intrusion detection(37) Ratings
Ability to detect both endpoint intrusion and network ingress detection
- 8.3Data integration/API management(5) Ratings
Ease and quality of data integrations between SIEM and other systems
- 7.7Behavioral analytics and baselining(4) Ratings
How effectively activity and behavior baselines are established and maintained
- 7.8Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds(4) Ratings
Effectiveness of manually-established rules and algorithmically-determined detection thresholds
- 6.9Response orchestration and automation(4) Ratings
Quality of built-in response orchestration and automation in Next-Gen SIEM
- 7.9Reporting and compliance management(4) Ratings
Ease and quality of reporting and compliance functions
- 8.9Incident indexing/searching(5) Ratings
Effectiveness of searching across structured and unstructured events and incidents within SIEM
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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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(51-69 of 69)For real time data analyzing get splunk.
- Easy to scale with large data sets.
- Real time analyzing.
- Suport all types of data.
- Doesn't provide optimized results with smaller size of data.
- Costly.
Splunk: Dynamic and Fast compliance tool
- Scalability. Splunk is really useful when you are dealing with a dynamic and bigger system and you want to make your system scalable.
- Reliable. Very reliable.
- Indexing and speed. Splunk really works very fast, even with bigger datasets.
- Cost! Splunk is a little costly when it comes to economical comparison.
- Speed is sometimes less when inflow of dynamic data is huge.
- Learning curve is there to become master of Splunk.
Splunk - the most flexible SIEM tool on the market.
- Splunk is flexible and extensible, able to ingest logs from disparate systems using disparate formats and disparate file types. If the ability exists to make the logs human readable (either natively or via a script), Splunk can ingest it.
- Splunk's flexibility in how you parse, format, and enhance your data is amazingly deep. When you start event typing, tagging, aliasing, and creating data models, you start to really open up Splunk's capabilities.
- Splunk scales very well in large environments. Adding additional indexers as your environment grows is pretty trivial and its ability to do multi-site clustering and search head clustering provides load balancing and redundancy that's inherent to the product.
- Splunk's search language goes very deep. To do some of the more advanced formatting or statistical analysis, there's a bit of a learning curve. 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).
- Splunk's dashboard capabilities are pretty decent but to do more exciting visualizations requires a bit of development using simple XML, Java script, and CSS.
- Splunk releases minor revisions very quickly but because of the sheer number of bugs we've run into, we've upgraded our environment four times in nine months.
Splunk- The Spunky Compliance Tool
- The querying speed is relatively fast. Of course the complexity of your query can affect how quickly it returns results, however, mine are fairly complex and I haven't had any issues.
- The query language allows for the ability to extract exactly what you are looking for.
- The ability to set up alerts is great for increased visibility and monitoring of your data.
- Splunk provides to the ability to create nice looking dashboards but the dashboards lack dynamic filtering. It would be nice if all the charts within a single dashboard filtered bases on selections within each chart.
Splunk in a nutshell
- Splunk is great at correlation of data from multiple sources and allows access to critical information without giving access to servers or applications.
- Splunk is good at integration of data and information from multiple point tools. The ability to have a single pane of glass view in to the IT world is critical to most IT shops.
- Splunk has a flexible dashboard system built on simple xml. Most users of the product can easily create and manipulate their data into useful dashboards.
- Splunk is not particularly hard to understand or deploy. The only problem I've really run in to is the 3-6 month use case exhaustion. Customers will have Splunk to solve a particular problem then stop once that problem is fixed. The use cases are only limited to their imagination and can blossom in the right hands.
Don't know how to live without Splunk for so long
- During our software development, Splunk is used for troubleshooting issues. With its ability to provide consolidated log messages for a specific period of time and transaction mode to correlate all relevant messages, it helps us pinpoint the root cause of the issue.
- Our operational staff relies on Splunk to provide timely alerts of issues and health monitoring of our entire operation.
- Our security team can easily perform audits as required using Splunk archives online instead of pulling backup tapes and tediously search though all relevant records of interests.
- Indexer replication is overly complicated
Good Tool for log mining
- Finding Oracle stats
- Getting request types based on users i.e. sorting capabilities
- Creating reports and charting based on data
- UI could be improved i.e. the query text-area behavior
- Creating reports publicly and deleting them is little non-intuitive for users
Big data indexing - Splunk
- search is amazing
- search is fast
- search is customizable
- reporting is great
- works well for my users
Review of Splunk
- Analysis of the Data. The feature to drill down the details .
- Visualization
- User Friendly
- Dashboards and Reports
- Search Functionality with Queries
- Can't think of any as of now . Happy with what ever they are offering currently.
Splunk in the Storage Arena
- Provide custom dashboards. In our environment, we are prepping for offshore off hours administration & no other tool can provide the exact information we are wanting to monitor in on view.
- It doesnt matter what vendor. We have this tool monitoring Brocade, EMC, Netapp, Isilon & more exactly the way we want to see status.
- We are able to alert on exactly what we want to see.
- The learning curve for the tool is workable.
- I'd like better ability to make alerts look like what we want to see. better able to pass variables into the alert.
- I'd like to see Excel integration with the syntax when creating reports/dashboards. So many times I know what I want but excel syntax doesnt work
- Easier data inputs for syslog & related.
Splunk, the sexy, sporty car that I can't afford.
- Analyze weblogs and extract key words
- Visualize increase or decrease usage
- Drill down capabilities
- There should be alternate licensing models for companies with large data
- Better compression of data stored on disk
- Lesser penalties for over usage
Splunk = Binoculars on your logs
- Alerts on any specifics searches help to detect a threat before any client observes it.
- Dashboards is a nice way to output useful and cool information about how our services are used in production.
- Easy powerful query language makes Splunk fun to use and any fetched data is not trivial because it's fun! It's really powerful.
- Documentation is very nice and Splunk is supported by a community.
- Sadly, splunk is not an open source project.
- Real time indexing of log files - This functionality helps us to track performance of the application during our monthly SOASTA run. We can see request coming and going to different services in real time.
- Searches - Splunk queries help us to search multiple log files residing in different servers in one go, which makes debugging very easy in a distributed environment.
- Alerts - Splunk alerts is an efficient tool which tells us before hand about issues in our production environment and gives us enough time to validate and fix those issues.
- Reporting - We work in an SOA based environment where multiple services talk to each other, we use splunk to generate daily performance reports of each service which includes lookups, hits, failures etc.
- We are using Splunk 6.0 version which is better in terms of performance as compared to its older versions, but it slows down, started using more server resources like memory, cpu time etc than expected, I guess this is one area where improvement is needed.
- Splunk queries are slightly complex when it comes to new or less experienced people, if we can make it more simple that will be awesome. But I must say it is doing its job very well.
Nice graphs if you can get them
- Nice graphs.
- I would have liked it to run offline and email me the result.
Splunk Excells at Business Visibility
- Gathering log messages from a multitude of sources.
- Summarizing and gathering important information from those logs.
- Allows simple and advanced searches, as well as complex automations to be created, gathering more value from existing data.
- There is a bit of a learning curve for a multi-tier architecture, but with a little work its easy to understand from the instructional materials provided by Splunk.
- Searches can take a bit to understand, especially regular expressions and search syntax.
- As always, understanding your data is paramount to being able to derive value from it.
Splunk- a great product
- Splunk is great for visualizing your data in a format that can indicate trends.
- Splunk can help you determine root cause and assimilate dissimilar data sources in a consistent manner.
- Splunk can help you find "the needle in the haystack" problems without having to log into many different devices.
- Splunk can be setup to look for symptoms that may cause issues in your environment and either alert report or trigger an action.
- Maybe wizards to help you walk through different tasks might help the beginner.
Splunk for Business Intelligence
- Log Aggregation and Ingestion
- Search and Analytics
- Operational Intelligence - identify patterns in performance bottleneck
- Setting up the log monitors and data ingestion process
- Search Queries - they have a new Data model and UI, but it needs more improvement
- If you are drowned in log files and don't have any clue of where your problems are?
- If you are reactive and not looking at patterns or problem bottlenecks?
- Would like to get Business Intelligence from your Operational / Log file or / dynaTrace Performance Data
Splunk: a review
- Splunk is great at quickly finding the insights you need to start an analysis
- Once you understand the query syntax, Splunk is very easy to use.
- Great alert monitoring.
- Splunk lacks the ability to create professional looking customer facing reports.
- Steep learning curve.
- Large queries are slower than a more traditional DB.
Splunk is a vital tool for business analysis
- It allows people to break down all of your data by any cohorts that you have.
- It pulls data in real time
- It's query writing is flexible so you don't have to know exactly what you want before an experiment begins
- Speed. Queries can take forever to run
- Reliability, we are regularly having issues with our Splunk set-up going down
- Complexity, we need a team of engineers to keep it running