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25 reviewers had the following to say about Splunk Enterprise's features:
As a user of Splunk, we generally used to monitor the log provided by the server clusters belonging to a tool called API Connect. As the logs are stored in Splunk, we tally the transaction count from API Connect tool and filter the log search in Splunk with a particular search query.
Pros
1) Accepts multiple data formats like CSV, JSON, XML 2) Does the hard work for us i.e converting machine data to a human-readable format. 3) Can create customized alerts to serve our business purpose. 4) Searching on the based on queries is pretty simple. 5) We can create dashboards to analyze and visualize our search results. 6) Can export the log content to our Personal computers. 7) Setting up plugins and integrating with any tool that needs monitoring is pretty easy. 8) Technical support for the Splunk is very quick as they have a dedicated staff for that.
Cons
I did not find any flaws with this software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's a very good tool to analyze real-time data.
Cons
As a student I think price is high, but I think value for money is good.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
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I am happy with this software and I would recommend this if you want to analyze real time data.
We created several reports/charts for visualization. We use splunk as security logs tool to see the firewall traffic, tracing any vulnerable access, any database related crash ..etc.
Pros
Splunk Enterprise is best tool to analyze the data based on different visualization.
Cons
Search query builder is fully based on technical. for Non technical users, its really difficult to lookup logs.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It is used to monitor the application and alert us for any issues.
It allows you to see far most end point of your system, everything stays under control.
Pros
I developed a lot of dashboards for our infrastructure, customized alarms, email notfications helps you to see what is happening in the system.
Cons
When you have a real big infrastructure, Splunk user interface gets a bit slow.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Overall, it is a very good monitoring tool for an support team and developers for doing root cause analysis.
Pros
we can create a custom dashboard with custom query for each projects and can relatively trigger the email to the support team in case of any issues.
Cons
Query response time will be slow when you are searching for relatively longer history(Eg. 3 months old data)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Splunk product captures, indexes real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, and visualizations which are very easy and helpful to understand the data.
Cons
I think there are no features which I do not like. I think during clustering I faced some problems thats it.
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Time used: 1-2 years
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This is really nice software and learning curve is very less. I definitely recommend using this software to analyze the real time data in big data domain.
good log monitoring tool
Pros
For each service, you can configure which log file should be shown on the UI(web). On UI, it provides lot of features like finding pattern in logs, doing analysis and generating reports and much more.
Cons
Initially, it takes time to understand the reports and pattern it finds out of the log.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We have setup splunk jobs to monitor the files and if any file is not available we are alerted using emails
Pros
Very useful in production monitoring and alerting using email option
Cons
I feel debugging is difficult. drop down or drag and drop functions should be made available because it's difficult to keep track and remember syntax of functions and it's usage.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Overall a decent product.
Pros
- Ability to search logs across processes and services - Ability to develop dashboards to Monitor critical metrics - Ability to set up alerts based on threshold values
Cons
- Need to regex well in order to use the tool to its full ability - Ability to extract values out of the log statements could be simpler - Alerts usually end up being over alerting or false alerts.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Splunk has been key in sever major issue root causes by analyzing logs and from that being able to build reports and determine causes of issues.
Pros
In addition it alerts very well from text based trigger alerts.
Cons
Mainly as a user it does exactly what I need it to do with no overhead and confusing interfaces.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
In general I think is a powerful tool but a little confusing to use at the beginning although I really enjoyed the fact that I was able to installed it in Linux, not every BI tool that I've tried will let you do that.
Pros
The charts and visualizations that you can create in general have a good look and it has the minimum functionalities expected as a user (export, filtering, search, etc), I spent some time trying to understand the interface and functionalities but once I started to load some data and use the search I was able to see the capabilities of the product.
Cons
I did not like the limitations of the free version like the size of the data you can upload but I guess is still fair to be able to use it for free.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Splunk Enterprise
Since the free version has limitations it is recommended to have a good idea of what you want to build and the purpose of usage so you can try it in a way that matter to then take the decision to buy a license or not.
Pros
The charts and visualizations that you can create in general have a good look and it has the minimum functionalities expected as a user (export, filtering, search, etc), I spent some time trying to understand the interface and functionalities but once I started to load some data and use the search I was able to see the capabilities of the product.
Cons
Splunk is easy to start going but difficult to master with so many features.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
All in all, an awesome metrics gathering and reporting tool, which makes sure you do no get lost under chunks of data generated by your platform.
Pros
Splunk provides a very flexible solution for helping you gather huge amount of data and then setting up alerts and configuring reports which helps you in converting data into an actionable insight.
Cons
UI/UX is really good but sometimes queries for gathering data can have steep learing curve on the Splunk.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Splunk is our key resource and first line of defense for our security team when looking at our intrusions against the organization.
Pros
The amount of information and data that you can organize with splunk is it's best feature.
Cons
It will take some time getting used to how create dashboards and reports so that can pull the relevant data out of splunk.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Splunk is nice tool to analyze the logs, visualize the transaction, creating auto alerts, creating Splunk's Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, creating dashboards.
I would be more interested with learning Splunk Machine learning tool as well as using it's cloud support in AWS or Hadoop based applications
Pros
Extensive support for creating dashboard, ability to write queries to capture application logs and support to automate alert system along with Service Now incident creation.
Cons
Sometimes cause issue to create false alert or miss alert because of the difference of fraction of seconds in data.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Splunk is great for visualizing any application data that we need, and the custom dashboards feature makes it easy to have related reports and queries all in one place.
Cons
I've been using Splunk for a while, and I still find the query process a bit difficult. For non-technical people, there is a steep learning curve.
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It helps the evaluation process if you have an idea of the questions you want to answer or the information you wish to seek before you dive into Splunk. I've had the most success when I approach a problem with a clear picture of what I want to do and how I intend to use Splunk to do so.
The best point is to create alerts and dashboards.
Pros
you can import all the data without parsing it.
Cons
I never thought it. Almost all features look good. The disadvantage of the high price.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Having a enterprise-ready centralized logging tool is critical for production success.
Pros
Finally, like all monitoring tools, Splunk offers AI and machine learning for even better predictive analytics.
Cons
The pricing is tiered and is subscription-based so if you start to ingest a lot of data, look out.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's easy to understand the interface, graphs are good and can be easily exported. The dashboards are very useful.
Cons
I am not sure if I am using the latest version, but the version I use sometimes would expand the text area where the query is written hard to tell if the search is still on or done.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Likelihood to recommend
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Try their dashboards, also automating it through a script using the Splunk API.
it has got a very stable search engine and teh results are almost automatic and takes no time
Pros
- easy queries - Robust -Never fails -Resilient - easy to use and alert configurations based on the resultants and error queries
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The reporting and pivot tables are powerful ways to visualize frequency of api calls once you learn the syntax.
Cons
The amount of traffic that can be collected has maximum caps based on your subscription.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
XRAY vision on your production instances. Every day we code our applications so that we will be splunk friendly with our app log statements. For example "featureX=value" allows you to query for every customer that engaged with featureX.
Pros
I work on commerce for a fortune 100 company, and we use Splunk to monitor our apps in real time. Splunk gives you the ability to perform queries like you would with SQL against your log statements in real time.
Cons
PRICE. The software is so powerful, and they seem to leverage this in the pricing of the licenses.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
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