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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.
Reviewers rate Incident indexing/searching highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of Splunk Enterprise are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.
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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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January 05, 2024
Splunk enterprise stable solution
Score 7 out of 10
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Splunk Enterprise is used in the company by the IT department. Mainly to monitor security events on process-relevant systems where the degree of security must be as high as possible. Monitoring and rapid response helps reduce downtime of vital systems.
- Ingest data and present it in a easy to read and process format
- Correlation
- Analysis and presentation of data
- Ease of operation and maintenance compared to other solutions of its kind
- Easier to implement and maintain than other solutions
- It would be useful to have more standardization of some of the information stored
- An expensive solution
- Documentation could be more accurate and up-to-date
June 17, 2022
Splunk Enterprise Rocks !!
We use Splunk Enterprise to do various types of monitoring across organizations using a clustered environment with distributed indexers, search heads, UF, and HFW i.e. Application Monitoring of various ETL tools such as Mulesoft, Airflow, Stream sets, etc REST API Monitoring Database monitoring HEC monitoring
- Act as a Search Head, Indexer and Forwarder
- Have full features to install Add-Ons
- Is On-Prem, so we have full control on created lookups on file system
- Better SPL Intelligence
- Add-On's auto upgrade management and notifications
- Implement more features on UI instead of config based implementations
August 09, 2021
Splunk Enterprise in the Cloud empowers me as an analyst
Splunk Enterprise is the basis for our log correlation and analysis. We're using it primarily for IT Security, and occasionally to assist with operations was helpful. It is the basis of our SIEM, Splunk Enterprise security. We pull in events from a wide variety of data sources. The ability of Splunk to ingest and normalize just about any sort of data is one of its strongest points.
- Gets data from anywhere
- Variety of supported alert types
- Real-time insights
- They should not remove support for Duo 2fa.
March 06, 2020
Splunk Enterprise review
Currently our bank has different departments with their own Splunk infrastructure. We are currently building a larger infrastructure to incorporate all departments to join this centralized infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise. As Splunk is used for log analyzing, it is used for reports on different metrics built from logs collected from different servers. We try to consolidate the logs and put results onto a more centralized data center set as well.
- Log analyzing.
- Reports.
- Forecast (ML model).
- Stability on some components (e.g. indexers).
- Complexity of install and maintenance of infrastructure.
February 29, 2020
Splunk Enterprise - Log collection & aggregation
Splunk was initially purchased to be our replacement for our syslog server, but it has grown into much much more and this is because of how easy it is to get logs into Splunk and the flexibility of what can be done with those logs.
We are now using it as a security tool, ingesting logs from lots of different sources and even our cloud platforms.
Currently it is just our IT team that use Splunk.
We are now using it as a security tool, ingesting logs from lots of different sources and even our cloud platforms.
Currently it is just our IT team that use Splunk.
- Dashboards/visualisations.
- Can ingest any type of data.
- Flexibility with filtering, etc.
- Steep learning curve.
- Full stack reporting (though with SignalFX being purchased by Splunk, this is clearly a high priority).
- Team needed to manage large installations.
February 29, 2020
Won't you take me to Splunkytown
We're using Splunk Enterprise to assist us with IT Operations and IT Security. We came to look at Splunk because when I entered the company I found over 500 devices with no centralized logging in any way, no ability to pinpoint problems across the whole organization whether historic or predictable and things like this. Splunk is helping us deliver a predictable, robust operation of our infrastructure instead of reacting to problems and working to find just what was affected and when.
We believe we can apply Splunk to other data, in time, specifically aiding the company with analyzing financial information, but this is not yet an active project.
We believe we can apply Splunk to other data, in time, specifically aiding the company with analyzing financial information, but this is not yet an active project.
- Fast, efficient
- Solid community of experts and training materials
- Ingests data from many sources, with a large number of partner relationships
- There is a high learning curve. If you go to a Splunk demo or class, get inspired, then install it yourself, you'll have no idea what you're meant to do. It's not intuitive to the first-time user in any way.
- Pricing can be confusing. People ask how much data you want to ingest, and you don't know until after you've been using Splunk. It's not easy to sign up and start without guesswork.
- I found online help pages are broken or out-of-date, or incomplete. e.g. pages on setting up the Java-based SQL Server driver don't even tell you where to download it or where to install it.
February 27, 2020
Excellent product for our cybersecurity team
Splunk Enterprise has been used by our Cybersecurity Department for almost five years to be the single dashboard for our Security Incident and Event Monitoring. On top of that, we are also using the Enterprise Security, and it helps us to focus on the most notable events that need to be followed up asap.
- Central dashboard for all logs
- Enterprise Security
- Better dashboard graphics
February 26, 2020
Splunk Enterprise: A powerful, but expensive tool
Splunk Enterprise is used as a repository for all our server and network infrastructure logs. This allows us to go to one place to review logs and potentially find a relationship between different systems with specific issues. For example, seeing failed login attempts to our switches and learning that a server was using old credentials.
- Robust collection of plugins to support specific applications
- Relatively easy to use
- Strong and helpful support
- Difficult to master
- Can be very complicated to implement into an environment
- Very expensive
November 22, 2019
Using Splunk in Educational Sectors
Splunk Enterprise has been used across University of Minnesota as one of our IT monitoring and alerting tools. This has been a big help for our user base to provide timed email alerts as well as monitoring all of the threshold parameters we set up. We have a dedicated admin to make sure the Splunk agents have been deployed and configured across all the client tools.
- Timely alerting
- Sharing with end users automatically
- Less impact
- Sometime we see the Splunk agent taking higher CPU from OS prospects
- Similar issues have been noticed in Oracle Databases
November 16, 2019
A real-time monitoring system
Splunk is used by our Engineering Department. Splunk has been a valuable and useful tool for our company to monitor errors occurring at all times. We love the real-time monitoring system that helps us detect errors and get the right people to handle them when needed to get things back up and running.
- Love the real-time monitoring system.
- Easy to use.
- I have no suggestions.
Splunk Enterprise tool is being used across our Digital department. Using this tool we are able to search and analyze event logs of our customer sessions. We can see the error trends of our Digital Services. Set up alerts for multiple KPIs and create dashboards for monitoring the health of our Digital products.
- Captures multiple different information about a customer and his/her session.
- Intuitive and informative search options.
- Option to set up precise alerts for different KPIs.
- The speed of the tool could be improved.
- It could store and allow to search for historical data older than 60 days (may be related to our company license).
- Dashboard creation could be more user-friendly.
May 21, 2019
Splunk, a great tool!
Score 8 out of 10
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Splunk is being used by the entire organization for searching and reporting and to analyze the logs and entire organization’s data. Splunk is a great tool to work on. It helps in finding various threats inside and outside the organization. Five stars.
- Versatile
- Intelligent
- Reporting
- Searching
- Log analysis
- Costly
- Needs training to work on
- Needs hands on experience to get used to
Splunk is an excellent logging platform, allowing for short and long term log storage with top tier indexing and searching capabilities. We have deployed Splunk to aggregate all logs and act as a central logging platform throughout the company. This helps us solve operational issues by providing a centralized log monitoring platform to be used by our operations group. It also helps solve regulatory issues by being the central logging platform with strict access controls as well as tiered storage and archiving capabilities.
- Tight access control via a variety of mechanisms to restrict users to specific logs.
- Solves regulatory controls by providing access control and archival storage capabilities.
- Provides a quick mechanism to search across multiple logs for issues between systems.
- Splunk can be expensive since it's based on the amount of logging you do. The capabilities definitely make up for the cost, but there is a high bar to entry.
- Splunk can be overly confusing for new users. The capabilities are quite vast and sometimes daunting.
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.
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 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
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
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.