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SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices and DevOps. A new SignalFX product, SignalFx…
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What is Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring aims to enable faster innovation, operational agility, and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services. These benefits are built on Open-Source frameworks, eliminating vendor lock-in and built for cloud-native enterprise scale to support even the largest of environments.
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- Amazon Web Services
- Kubernetes
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- AWS Lambda
- Apache Kafka
- MongoDB
- Redis™*
- Apache Cassandra
- Envoy Visitors
- NGINX
- HAProxy Community Edition
- Jenkins
- etcd
- Google Cloud Functions
- Terraform
- by HashiCorp
- Consul
- by HashiCorp
- AWS Elastic Load Balancer
- Active MQ
- Istio Service Mesh
- Over 200 other integrations
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS |
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SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices and DevOps. A new SignalFX product, SignalFx Microservices APM, was released March 2020 to detect issues, provide real-time app troubleshooting, and future-proof expectations.
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The most common users of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, formerly known as SignalFx, has been widely used across organizations for continuous monitoring of cloud resources and application statuses. Users have relied on Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to aggregate data from various areas and correlate them to pinpoint problem areas. Different applications within organizations have used Splunk to monitor core infrastructure, back-end app servers, front-end servers, databases, and other parts of the application. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has helped track hundreds of device endpoints, providing visibility into each device and the ability to customize the data received from them.
The monitoring capabilities of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring have helped detect device problems and automatically remediate them in some cases. Users have determined custom logs to capture, noted their locations and hosts, and gathered sample log files for Splunk ingest. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has been used to monitor AWS infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and provide visualizations of different data types. It has also been used to monitor Azure and on-prem resources, as well as application health. The product has served as the primary monitoring and alerting solution for infrastructure and application metrics, helping maintain uptime on systems and address business problems related to system monitoring.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has delivered real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across various platforms, enabling instant visualization, alerts, insights, and troubleshooting steps. It has provided observability over a distributed higher education environment and helped build an infrastructure map for steering decisions. The product has been used for incident detection and prevention, monitoring logs, and saving logs for all necessary cases. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has been used as a primary monitoring tool in Cloud Infrastructure, managing dashboards and incidents. It has offered deep insights into system and network activities, monitored applications, and alerted when applications go down. The product has helped monitor service health, diagnose issues, and show data in a manner that exposes the desired information. It has been used to monitor infrastructure and services, set baselines, and analyze logs for trends, issues, improvements, and reporting.
Customers have found value in the proactive monitoring features of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, allowing them to take action based on metrics like CPU utilization and disk space. Reviewers have praised the product's ability to alert users about system issues and take proactive measures to maintain system uptime. Overall, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has proven instrumental in monitoring different environments, including production, UAT, development, Linux virtual machines, AWS infrastructure, Azure resources, on-prem resources, and application health. By providing real-time insights, visualizations, and alerts, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring empowers organizations to make informed decisions and address business problems related to system monitoring effectively.
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September 08, 2023
Versatile solution to connect the dots and provide real time visibility to your services
We monitor our campus firewall , for auditing, troubleshooting, and changes with 3rd party vendors infra.
We also collect logs from our servers and analyze it for trends, issues, improvements, as well as reporting.
We also collect logs from our servers and analyze it for trends, issues, improvements, as well as reporting.
- Aggregate data in a simple way
- Versatile search and correlation interfaces
- fast
- Finding the correct app for the use case can be tedious
- natural language searches can be very helpful as well as results
- integration of suggestions \ autocomplete
September 07, 2023
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring like a boss
1.
Determine what custom logs you wish to capture.
2.
Note and document the paths that the logs are located.
3.
Note and document the hosts that contain those logs (IP, short hostname,
FQDN)
4.
Gather sample log files
5.
Check for application guidance for Splunk ingest (i.e. iis
logs require a specific configuration so that logs are readable inside Splunk,
some application can utilize http event collector, etc.)
- Logging
- Log Forwarding
- Monitoring
- Improve search latency
- Ability to export data using other apps
- Ways to remove IP's when exporting data
July 20, 2023
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Review
All logs are sent to Splunk. Different applications may use Splunk more than others, but some apps are monitoring core infrastructure, back end app servers, front end servers, databases and many other parts of the application. Most applications have alerting set up through Splunk. Anytime a search condition is triggered an alert is sent into service now through our Splunk integration.
- Alerting quickly and correctly
- High data integrity
- Providing real user monitoring
- Quick log searching
- Sometimes Splunk inexplicably doesn't alert when it should.
- Price is high
- I haven't seen a way to automatically dashboard, a range of similar events. A particular host for example
February 28, 2023
Great monitoring tool for web application and API tools
As the engineering team, we use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring mainly to monitor the application usage and system load (DevOps) together. We do share some metrics with other teams within the organization (marketing, BizDev, Product, and so on) mainly to understand our user usage and main flow.
- Easy integration with the code and infrastructure.
- Easy to define new (and complex) metrics.
- Advance alerts mechanize.
- Better integration with our clients (native mobile clients SDKs will be great).
- A way to easily tag filters and move them across metrics/formula.
- Alert system to easy false [alarm] and hard to configure.
- Be able to have group more dimensions (and have more values on each).
November 04, 2022
Good Splunk helps us!
We use Splunk to monitor our AWS Infrastructure. For that, we send the AWS Cloud Watch group logs to Splunk for all the accounts we have.
Splunk facilitate us to troubleshooting issues inside AWS using the queries and dashboards.
Splunk facilitate us to troubleshooting issues inside AWS using the queries and dashboards.
- Separate AWS accounts with. indexes
- Go to detail of issues
- Fast and reliable tool
- Maybe sharing pre establish queries to other members of the team in the same session.
- Possibility to customize the main dashboard
- Better free training for sure!
Describe how you use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring in your organization? This product helps our team maintain uptime on systems. What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case? by monitoring the systems that we have in all our environments we rarely lose sight of the information we are trying to keep. The scope of our use case would be considered large.
- Good uptime for the product
- Allows us to see everything
- allows us to get detailed information on system health
- Could be easier to start with for users
- more plug and play for management
- would love to see more custom coloring options
July 07, 2022
All in one monitoring system
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to deliver real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across our many platforms. Real-time streaming analytics gives us instant visualization, alerts, as well as insights, and troubleshooting steps. Being able to see our infrastructure in real-time allows us to troubleshoot possible performance issues cutting down on the turnaround time or any effects on the customers.
- Visualization
- actionable alerts
- real time
- Integrations of APIs
- personalization
- better documentation
I aid other organisations in setting the direction and infrastructure for their cloud transformation work and in achieving their goals. As part of this, a big part is getting good monitoring going to protect against failures and, importantly, to prevent them or remediate them before customers experience them. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has always been my top recommendation because of the value it offers in aggregating data from many different areas and allowing them to be correlated to pinpoint exactly where a problem is happening.
- Correlating failures across disparate products and systems
- Rapidly identifying root causes or failure
- Team collaboration on identifying and resolving a defect
- Setup can be complicated
We use SO to monitor Azure and on-prem resources. We also leverage APM to monitor application health. We host a variety of products from an API Gateway to Claims Engines. SO enables us to proactively monitor issues across our micro-services hosted in a hybrid infrastructure.
- Uses one tool (OTEL) to enable integration
- Enables custom tagging
- Correlates Infrastructure and APM
- RBAC is needed to enable the segmentation of duties and keep dashboards and detectors safe from ad-hoc changes.
- Ability to seamlessly import the Billing and Usage SO data into Splunk Core to analyze
June 17, 2022
Splunk as the Monitoring Tool of Choice
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to keep track of hundreds and hundreds of device endpoints. With the Universal Forwarder deployed to these endpoints, my team gains visibility into each of these devices that we have never had in the past. We can also customize the exact data we receive from each device or group of devices. The monitoring helps to detect the exact instance a device has a problem, and in some cases automatically remediate the issue.
- Endpoint Monitoring
- Script Deployment
- Data Aggregation
- Needs a way to display interactive dashboards to outside users
- Embedded reports need to be simplified
- Dashboard customization could be enhanced
June 17, 2022
observability
To gain observability over a distributed higher education environment is so important - and this product helps build that infostructure map that the organization requires to keep the lights on and make steering decisions.
- Helps standardize data from multiple sources
- Gains visibility over a huge map of complicated services
- provides a framework for us to make smart decisions
- more online forums/lectures
- seeing more examples of the product so we can adapt and solve problems others have solved
All our alerts are from our Network. All our applications point to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for alerts and logs. Very useful and productive application and a must-have for all organizations. Very granular and powerful tool that can be used by the air department to monitor and save logs for all cases needed.
- Logs
- Alerts
- Granular
- Easier to user
- User friendly
- Pre filled info
June 17, 2022
Splunk consulting and user experience
We use for a leading financial services client to monitor the on Prem servers - their health, thresholds, and alerts and come up with risk mitigation and backup strategies. Without this product, there were multiple teams performing manual operations and they were often silos of data. Splunk centralized the whole monitoring and management part
- Server statisitcs
- Traffic and load
- Overall health
- Reporting
- Customization
- Ability to connect to home grown products
March 25, 2022
Splunk review
I use Splunk Monitoring as a primary monitoring tool in our Cloud Infrastructure. The data is pushed from the agent to Splunk Server. We manage all of the Dashboard in the Splunk UI. Also for Incident management, we use detectors from Splunk and some custom-made detectors. Also, alerts are pushed as incidents to Pagerduty and ServiceNow.
- SignalFx Agent Easy Installation. We have many examples of installing SignalFx via Ansible, Chef, and Packer.
- Manu type of detectors for all the Cloud (AWS , Azure and GCP).
- Signal Flow - Support for Creating Detectors using the Programming Interface.
- Documentation and tutorials for Beginners for starting to learn SignalFX / Splunk.
September 01, 2021
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Review
Their visualizations of all different kinds of data are great. has been very useful for more complex charts. This helps me choosing what metrics I report and how often. They are growing and looking to provide more and more features. We plan on using many of these new features as they are released.
- Integrations and customizations with SignalFx are relatively easy.
- We haven't seen any noticeable downtime events or impactful service interruptions in our environment.
- Graphs and detectors cannot process more than 10,000 hosts at a time.
- Few other features we'd like to see are missing, but they are improving day by day.
Our company decided to implement Splunk within all business units couple of years back. I have found Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to be incredibly useful in giving us deep insights into what is happening within our systems and our network. The metric interface is intuitive and powerful and the agent was very easy to configure, package and deploy.
- To improve business process outcomes.
- Improve compliance and security requirements.
- Strong support and services expertise.
- More flexibility in pricing.
- Importing logs for custom applications are sometimes difficult.
August 31, 2021
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Review
We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring across enterprises as a standard infrastructure monitoring solution for various mission-critical business application systems. We had set up pub/sub architecture to collect streaming analytical data. We mostly use it for on-premises devices. Operations teams rely on its alerting capabilities to ensure system uptime and act on some proactive metrics like CPU utilization and disk spaces full, etc.
- UX, dashboards and KPI charts.
- Really good documentation and training options.
- Splunk supports hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring a big plus for enterprises with cloud services.
- It's expensive only large enterprise can afford.
- UI improvement - built in dashboard templates, search and filter options.
August 31, 2021
One of the best Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
Our team has used Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for a BFSI client to do monitoring of all the production, UAT, and development environments. Also, we have used it for monitoring the Linux virtual machines. We are able to run automated scripts on all the servers to monitor the usage patterns and heavy load time throughout the day.
- Excellent reporting for the monitoring information.
- Graphical representation in charts and workflows.
- Detailed logging for all the monitoring activity.
- Integration with cloud services like AWS and IBM.
- Cost is on the higher side.
- Density and detailing in logs should be increased to give in-depth analysis of the issue/error encountered.
- Documentation needs to be improved.
We are using Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx) in our R&D department to monitor our infrastructure and services. We configured a baseline of parameters and set an alert if it changes.
- Fast, real-time graphs
- The agility to build and customize personal dashboards
- The ability to get a full view on abnormal performance/use of system and services
- Predictive AI for anomalous behavior
- Suggesting root cause of malfunction
We’re using Splunk [Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx)] to report real-time metrics when the number/percentage of a specific event is important. For example, we use it to detect error cases or monitor real-time throughout of the system. We also use the detectors to get alerts when the condition is met. It’s widely used by almost all engineering teams
- Metric breakdowns
- Dashboards and charts
- Detectors and alerting mechanism
- Chart sharing needs an improvement because it creates links only valid for 7 days.
- Metrics search can be improved, most of the time I want to see which specific metric is used in which charts. This would make my life so much easier to find the charts that I’m looking for.
- There is a 5000 time series limit on each metric. If any metric has a breakdown more than 5000 combination, only some of them is reported and this make my charts sometimes unreliable. It would be nice to support more time series, at least with a configuration.
May 02, 2021
Great product
We [are] using [Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx)] in order to help us monitor our service health and diagnose issues that big data can help with.
This is one of the most advanced tools I've used for the matter, I was always able to find a way to show the data I need in a manner that will expose the info I'm looking for, adding alerts based on this is a killer feature. The only drawback I find is that you might have a [steep] learning curve in order to control this tool.
This is one of the most advanced tools I've used for the matter, I was always able to find a way to show the data I need in a manner that will expose the info I'm looking for, adding alerts based on this is a killer feature. The only drawback I find is that you might have a [steep] learning curve in order to control this tool.
- Diagnostic
- Advanced charting
- Alerts
- Easiness of use
- Templates for common usage
- Better documentation
May 02, 2021
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Review
[Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly SignalFx)] is being used across the entire organization for many purposes such as continuous monitoring of cloud resources and application statuses. It addresses business problems that require us to get timely notifications for events occurring within our infrastructure and address them accordingly. In my own department, our continuous monitoring tools rely on SFX reports.
- Resource utilisation metrics
- Continuous data sent from within applications
- Integration with 3rd party tools to trigger on-call notification alerts
- I'd say better advice on how best organizations can tailor it to suit their needs
- I've seen newcomers face a steeper learning curve, and hence better documentation
- I'm not a big fan of how active/inactive metrics can be told apart
The whole organization is using it to monitor our applications: CPU usage, memory consumption, sometimes JVM metrics. Mostly we use it to alert us when applications go down.
- It’s very customizable and accepts any metric.
- Customer support is quick and good quality.
- Easy to create graphs and detectors.
- Accumulates alerts from terminated EC2 instances and then sends false/incorrect alerts when another instance uses the same IP.
- Documentation is sometimes hard to understand. Could use more examples.
SignalFX is used as the primary monitoring and alerting solution for our infrastructure and application metrics. It is used by engineering and solves the business problem of incident detection and/or prevention.
- SignalFX handles historical metric aggregation exceptionally well, providing a multifaceted approach to event detection based on anomalies.
- SignalFX's cost is incredibly flexible with their pricing model of DPM (data-point per minute) vs the traditional "per host" model that most monitoring SaaS use.
- SignalFX support is responsive and knowledgeable, very eager to help solve your immediate problems.
- SignalFX integrations is vast and constantly growing, making adoption easy even when multiple different open-source technologies are used in your stack.
- SignalFX has room for improvement in UX. With the amount of options available, SignalFX use can be somewhat complicated. They seem to prefer a less-opinionated implementation, which can have its pros and cons. Other solutions like Datadog can be easier to implement, though at the cost of their opinion on implementation and price.