Splunk for Business Intelligence
May 14, 2014

Splunk for Business Intelligence

Rajesh Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

6.0

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk

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.
  • Log Aggregation and Ingestion
  • Search and Analytics
  • Operational Intelligence - identify patterns in performance bottleneck
  • Setting up the log monitors and data ingestion process
  • Search Queries - they have a new Data model and UI, but it needs more improvement
  • Faster problem isolation
  • Identify patterns in Operational Performance data
  • Proactive monitoring
Traditional Log file monitors
Open source tools
It's the best tool out in the market.
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