Item: Splunk Enterprise
Rating: 8
Author: Rajesh Jain

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Splunk is used by our customers either for log analysis, or getting insights in performance issues. Most of the users of Splunk are in Ops -- they are focused on keeping the lights on and getting ahead before the the problem occurs. The main business problems which customers attempt to solve are - Security breaches and Fraud analysis and performance diagnostics.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Log Aggregation and Ingestion
Search and Analytics
Operational Intelligence - identify patterns in performance bottleneck

Cons

Setting up the log monitors and data ingestion process
Search Queries - they have a new Data model and UI, but it needs more improvement

Return on Investment

Faster problem isolation
Identify patterns in Operational Performance data
Proactive monitoring

Alternatives Considered

Traditional Log file monitors
Open source tools

Likelihood to Renew

It's the best tool out in the market.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would suggest that Splunk is best suited if

- 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

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