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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Splunk Enterprise in the Cloud empowers me as an analyst
Robust IT Operations and SIEM Management Solution
Great for almost anything
Security/Data Analytics Solution That Comes with SIEM Capabilities
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Splunk Enterprise - Log collection & aggregation
Won't you take me to Splunkytown
Excellent product for our cybersecurity team
Splunk Enterprise: A powerful, but expensive tool
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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)6.060%
- 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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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
- 6Event 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
- 7.8Behavioral 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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- Real-time status
- Data integration
- Live dashboards
- Automated machine learning
- Extract transform and loading
- Data modeling
Robust IT Operations and SIEM Management Solution
Splunk has the ability to correlate data from disparate data sources and provide root cause hence reducing MTTR and improving our SLA's with our customers. The events logged in Splunk help our IT Analyst and Security Analyst take proactive action before impacting the services which our customer uses. The Event Correlation helps us find RCA and improve MTTD and MTTR.
- Collect data from multiple data sources and correlate. Reduce alert noise from multiple monitoring systems.
- Monitor alerts and report on data collected. Create custom dashboards.
- Powerful machine learning and AiOPS functionality.
- Helps with our security compliance and addresses the security team's need to remain PCI compliant.
- Splunk data sizing and data collected. Worked with Professional Service to scale our environment.
- Capacity data storage for Splunk data.
- TuningSplunk analytics dashboards for performance.
Great for almost anything
- The power of it. It's a very good tool that does amazing things. Nothing comes close to it.
- It can ingest any data and present it in a digestible, searchable format.
- Flat file format makes it very fast and the best visualizations I've seen.
- It can be cost prohibitive, but I still think it's worth it.
- Training users is a little bit steeper, but once they have it, it's very powerful.
Splunk Enterprise - Log collection & aggregation
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.
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.
Won't you take me to Splunkytown
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.
It's not suited for scenarios where you want to report on a single set of data, say, in a traditional way, for example, a typical scheduled report out of a finance system.
Splunk Enterprise: A powerful, but expensive tool
- 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
Splunk is a single tool that does everything
- Log mining.
- Able to consume multiple log sources.
- Provides the possibility to upgrade the Splunk UF from a deployment server.
- Splunk search language can be very expensive if the users do not know what they are doing.
a very good log handling and analysis tool
- 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.
Monitor your monitors...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Splunk is a great tool for helping make sense of logs
- 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.
The only issue most users are going to have is cost once you start figuring out the amount of data you're going to be aggregating, the licensing costs can get rather steep.
Splunk for new users
- 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.
- 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.
Powerful tool with a big learning curve
- 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
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 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 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 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.