Great for almost anything
Updated July 19, 2021
Great for almost anything
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Enterprise
We use this across our different departments for security, app performance monitoring, host monitoring, data intelligence, correlation, alerting and much more. It's a Swiss Army Knife of IT products.
- The power of it. It's a very good tool that does amazing things. Nothing comes close to it.
- It can ingest any data and present it in a digestible, searchable format.
- Flat file format makes it very fast and the best visualizations I've seen.
- It can be cost prohibitive, but I still think it's worth it.
- Training users is a little bit steeper, but once they have it, it's very powerful.
- Like any tool, if you use it, it does need care and feeding. If you change your log structure or location, update it in Splunk or you'll have missing info.
- Don't use it as a reactionary tool, it should be the first tool you go to.
- We use another product for monitoring, but the data is not helpful in their product. We started bringing that data into Splunk and it's actually useful to us now.
Splunk is all inclusive, you don't need 3 products to do what Splunk did 4 previous major versions.