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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 …
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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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- 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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What is Splunk Enterprise?
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.
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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July 20, 2021
Robust IT Operations and SIEM Management Solution
Splunk Enterprise is used by our Infrastructure and Enterprise Monitoring Team and Security Teams to monitor our infrastructure. Monitoring is enabled for the overall health of our systems. Data is collected from multiple data sources. Logs are analyzed and converted to meaningful metrics for the team to proactive monitor and take corrective actions.
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.
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.
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- Improved MTTR for all our incidents.
- Reduced alert noise with powerful correlation engine.
- Performance Analytics dashboards.
More features and easy to manage once configured and setup correctly. Stronger correlation engine compared to other products. Easily integrates with ServiceNow for ticket creation, automation, and building workflows. Helps in AiOPS more, as compared to other tools. Provides anomaly detection with powerful machine learning capabilities across various metrics.
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IT Operations, Security Operations.
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Enterprise Monitoring, System, Network and Application Monitoring, Server Admin, Network Admin, Security Admin.
- Network, Systems and Application Monitoring.
- Aggregation of Machine Data from different sources.
- Meaningful dashboards based on data collected to aid decision making.
- Integration with ticketing tools to automate ticket generation.
- Reduce noise from multiple monitoring tools.
- Automating actions based on alerts triggered.
- More Automation and invest in self healing Infrastructure.
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Collect Data from more different Data Sources.
- Third-party professional services
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Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
- Collecting Logs from some Storage Systems.
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Capacity Planning for our infrastructure.
- Reporting
- Event and alert Correlation
- Ease of collecting Log from any sources
- Managing the data collected from a storage standpoint.
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
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- So far we are happy with this tool's features.
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- Monitoring all of our Oracle databases and servers
- Monitoring all of MSSQL databases
- Monitoring all of MySql databases and its application
- Easier to configure the agent
- Easier to share the reports to any specific audience
- Easier to re-configure and add more features
- Including more applications and servers to have the Splunk coverage
- Sharing those important alerts after release from any patching or upgrades
- Educating the end users to take actions to reduce those daily alerts
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It's reputation and existing user feedback we got from others. We evaluated many other monitoring software and decided to go with Splunk due to its broad coverage areas. It's excellent customer support, easier implementation method.
Will check the Google reviews first.