Won't you take me to Splunkytown
February 29, 2020
Won't you take me to Splunkytown

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Enterprise
We're using Splunk Enterprise to assist us with IT Operations and IT Security. We came to look at Splunk because when I entered the company I found over 500 devices with no centralized logging in any way, no ability to pinpoint problems across the whole organization whether historic or predictable and things like this. Splunk is helping us deliver a predictable, robust operation of our infrastructure instead of reacting to problems and working to find just what was affected and when.
We believe we can apply Splunk to other data, in time, specifically aiding the company with analyzing financial information, but this is not yet an active project.
We believe we can apply Splunk to other data, in time, specifically aiding the company with analyzing financial information, but this is not yet an active project.
Pros
- Fast, efficient
- Solid community of experts and training materials
- Ingests data from many sources, with a large number of partner relationships
Cons
- There is a high learning curve. If you go to a Splunk demo or class, get inspired, then install it yourself, you'll have no idea what you're meant to do. It's not intuitive to the first-time user in any way.
- Pricing can be confusing. People ask how much data you want to ingest, and you don't know until after you've been using Splunk. It's not easy to sign up and start without guesswork.
- I found online help pages are broken or out-of-date, or incomplete. e.g. pages on setting up the Java-based SQL Server driver don't even tell you where to download it or where to install it.
- Ability to proactively deal with security threats before they become a problem.
- Able to identify everything affected right away when a problem occurs.
- Able to drill into problems, including historic problems, and work out the root causes.
- No negative impacts.
Do you think Splunk Enterprise delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Splunk Enterprise's feature set?
Yes
Did Splunk Enterprise live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Splunk Enterprise go as expected?
No
Would you buy Splunk Enterprise again?
Yes
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