Powerful and easy to use tool for Logging
October 11, 2024

Powerful and easy to use tool for Logging

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Splunk Light (legacy)

Overall Satisfaction with Splunk Enterprise

We use Splunk for proactive appplication management with more then 40 scrum teams. we want to stay ahead of disruptions and have visibility into our applications through application logging , dashboarding , reporting and alerting, the essence of Splunk is that we can monitor easy our applications with it with multiple dissiplines in the scrum teams.

Pros

  • easy to use for non technicals
  • powerfull logging tool
  • very good documentation

Cons

  • user interface has not changed for many years
  • not for metrics
  • data retention
  • easy to use and basic UI
  • low learning curve for non developers
  • Easy Alerting and dashboarding
It is easy to use and you can correlate the logging with his own Query language. Creating dashboards and maintaining them are pretty simple. From your search you can easy create a dashboard or an alert. management of it is also easy. Once you understand how the fork works everything speaks for it selfs
Splunk is easy to use , the User interface is quite easy and the components or functionality speak for themselves. The ease with you can search and from there fine tune your search functionality. Also the admin console is quite simple to use, you can find the functionality at a easy way.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Splunk Enterprise again?

No

Splunk is a powerfull tooling for deep insight into log data. We use this daily to get insight information how our applications are running. It is amazing to see that also non developers can use the tooling for their need. The easy way of using the query language, his dashboards and alerting.

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