Item: Splunk Cloud
Rating: 9
Author: Manan Bhatt

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Splunk Cloud is being used by our department. It solved many business problem as it delivers Splunk-as-a-Service hosted securely on the public cloud. With this cloud-ready service, one can enjoy all of Splunk Enterprise features without worrying about hosting the infrastructure and without paying the upfront Splunk licensing cost. Splunk Cloud supports all Splunkbase apps including Premium applications (e.g. Enterprise Security, ITSI, etc.) with pre-packaged searches, dashboards, and reports to create the right story from the data with the power of self-serviceability.

Pros and Cons

With Splunk Cloud you get the advantage of moving from POC to Production in a matter of days rather than in months allowing the Business to gain a lot.
Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
Highly secure environment at your finger-tips

Splunk Cloud support is increasing a lot now a days and I see no cons other than the price factor to the other compared products. Overall Splunk Cloud is a very good product all together.
I can see that Splunk Cloud can still improve in the form of SLA.
Splunk Cloud generally lags behind the available Splunk upgrades. They are always one version behind the one available for enterprise.

Return on Investment

End-end visibility across your departmental silos
Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

Alternatives Considered

Moogsoft, Elasticsearch, Jenkins and Ansible

I believe there is no existing competitor of Splunk and the way Splunk Cloud provides support is way better than all the other competitors. No one can beat Splunk Cloud!!

Other Software Used

Splunk Enterprise, Jenkins

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for many business use cases where security, performance, and support are the top-most priority, along with the normal use case of Splunk. One would get very good support if the company is using Splunk Cloud and can solve many business problems like seamlessly allowing end users to store, search, analyze and visualize data from different sources of one’s business or IT infrastructure. Splunk Cloud follows the state-of-the-art cloud ready deployment strategies in line with continuous integration/deployment pipeline which is designed for high availability, efficient change management, and robust architecture.

One shouldn't use Splunk Cloud for learning or testing purpose. Such things can be done or fulfilled by Splunk Enterprise as well and would be way cheaper then Splunk Cloud.

Data is the new Oil!!

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Cloud